July 2, 2007
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An Answer:
A figure like Ecclesiast/
Rugged and luminous,
chants in the dark/
A text that is an answer,
although obscure.-- Wallace Stevens,
"An Ordinary Evening
in New Haven"A Text
Time and Chance
today in the
Keystone State:

From 8/02
in 2005:
50 Years Ago
on this date, poet
Wallace Stevens died.
Memorial: at the
Wallace Stevens
Concordance,
enter center.
Result:The Man with the Blue Guitar line 150 (xiii.6): The heraldic center of the world Human Arrangement line 13: The center of transformations that This Solitude of Cataracts line 18: Breathing his bronzen breath at the azury center of time. A Primitive Like an Orb line 1 (i.1): The essential poem at the center of things, line 87 (xi.7): At the center on the horizon, concentrum, grave Reply to Papini line 33 (ii.15): And final. This is the center. The poet is Study of Images II line 7: As if the center of images had its An Ordinary Evening in New Haven line 291 (xvii.3): It fails. The strength at the center is serious. line 371 (xxi.11): At the center, the object of the will, this place, Things of August line 154 (ix.18): At the center of the unintelligible, The Hermitage at the Center Title: The Hermitage at the Center Owl's Clover, The Old Woman and the Statue (OP) line 13 (ii.9): At the center of the mass, the haunches low, The Sail of Ulysses (OP) line 50 (iv.6): The center of the self, the self Someone Puts a Pineapple Together (NA) line 6 (i.6): The angel at the center of this rind, Of Ideal Time and Choice (NA) line 29: At last, the center of resemblance, found line 32: Stand at the center of ideal time, For a text on today's
mid-day number, see
Theme and Variations.
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