On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems Luther Standing Bear It is knowing how to

It is knowing how to read texts in such a way that they will be allowed to function according to their original power and intent

He died in 2016

whose extinction he movingly relates

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On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems Luther Standing Bear It is knowing how toThough Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen Hennessy Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. Stevens' central theme the worth of the imagination remained with him all his life, and Mrs. Vendler therefore proposes that his development as a poet can best be seen, not in description which must be repetitive of the abstract bases of his work, but rather in a view of his