Monthly Archives: May 2018

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (Wallace Stevens)

I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. IV A man and a woman Are one. AContinueContinue reading ““Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (Wallace Stevens)”

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me! One picture but a thousand words. This very #Amygism reminds me to Ezra Pound’s “In The Station of Metro” and the work of #DesImagistes, An Anthropology. Hulme’s essay “Romanticism and Classicism”(1910): the language of poetry is a “visual concrete one … Images in verse are not mere decoration, but the very essence ofContinueContinue reading “The Journey Begins”