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{"title":"\"Blue and White Munich\": Images of Germany in Stevensian Regeneration","authors":"Gül Bilge Han","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922170","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wallace Stevens's exploration of German cultural elements and figures, including his own heritage, functions as a creative source for his poetry and prose. While his early poetry romanticizes German culture and identity, Stevens grows skeptical in the mid-1930s and 1940s when his references to Germany increasingly inform his questioning of poetry's collective relevance and function. In several poems including \"Martial Cadenza,\" \"Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion,\" and \"Imago,\" images of Germany provide key points of departure to contemplate the regenerative potential of the poetic imagination in transcending the exigencies of the external world unsettled by war and destruction.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Stevens and Germany, Stevens in (West) Germany","authors":"Andrew Steven Gross","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922168","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This first of two special issues on \"Stevens and Germany\" addresses a neglected topic. Five contributions by Philip McGowan, Gül Bilge Han, James Dowthwaite, George Kovalenko, and Christoph Irmscher explore the broad contours of Wallace Stevens's relation to Germany, spanning from youthful identification to tempered wartime and postwar reflections. The contributions also highlight moments in the poet's life and writing, including his visit to a German art exhibition in 1909 and his later genealogical research into the maternal, German side of the family. A related topic of scholarly neglect, at least in the United States, has been the postwar (West) German reception of Stevens. Not until the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall was his poetry able to slough its initial reputation as elitist and conformist. A series of new translations, most of them appearing in the twenty-first century, have helped revitalize German interest in the American poet.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"The Heart's Residuum\": Adorno's Metaphysical Experience in Stevens's \"Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas\"","authors":"George Kovalenko","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922172","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although Wallace Stevens and Theodor W. Adorno respond in distinct ways to the Holocaust, their works have a theoretical affinity. In 1940, Stevens writes a poem that, while it cannot register the unfathomable catastrophe, does speculate about the fate of the imagination in a world turned into an enormous camp through total war. Adorno, who most famously responds in his dictum against poetry after Auschwitz, develops a minimal theory of what he calls metaphysical experience. What for Adorno is the dialectical category of metaphysical experience is for Stevens poetics.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Current Bibliography","authors":"Lisa Goldfarb, Florian Gargaillo","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922181","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; Current Bibliography &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Lisa Goldfarb and Florian Gargaillo &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Lisa Goldfarb Gallatin School, New York University Florian Gargaillo Austin Peay State University &lt;h2&gt;B&lt;small&gt;ooks&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; Gould, Thomas, and Ian Tan, editors. &lt;em&gt;Wallace Stevens in Theory&lt;/em&gt;. Liverpool UP, 2023. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Hart, Kevin. &lt;em&gt;Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation: The Gifford Lectures, 2020–2023&lt;/em&gt;. U of Chicago P, 2023. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Tan, Ian. &lt;em&gt;Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing&lt;/em&gt;. Routledge, 2023. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Wood, Jamie. &lt;em&gt;Modernist War Poetry: Combat Gnosticism and the Sympathetic Imagination, 1914–1919&lt;/em&gt;. Edinburgh UP, 2023. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;B&lt;small&gt;ook&lt;/small&gt; C&lt;small&gt;hapters&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; Azambuja, Enaiê Mairê. \"The alchemy of imagination and material reality: nothingness, impermanence, and vital materialism in Wallace Stevens's poetry.\" &lt;em&gt;The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry&lt;/em&gt;, Routledge, 2024, pp. 119–44. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Deming, Richard. \"Response and Responsibility: Stevens, Williams, and the Ethics of Modernism.\" &lt;em&gt;Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading&lt;/em&gt;, Stanford UP, 2022, pp. 117–68. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Eames, Rachel Fountain. \"The Quantum Poetics of Wallace Stevens and Max Planck.\" &lt;em&gt;Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde: Quantum Modernism and Modernist Relativities&lt;/em&gt;, Bloomsbury, 2023, pp. 179–224. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Gill, Jo. \"Wallace Stevens: Ideas of Order.\" &lt;em&gt;Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms&lt;/em&gt;, Oxford UP, 2023, pp. 115–50. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Marsh, Alec. \"Wallace Stevens, Stanley Burnshaw, and the Defense of Poetry in an Age of Economic Determinism.\" &lt;em&gt;The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900&lt;/em&gt;, edited by Daniel Morris, Cambridge UP, 2023, pp. 86–99. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Wallace, Jeff. \"'Resist the intelligence almost successfully': Wallace Stevens.\" &lt;em&gt;Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman&lt;/em&gt;, Edinburgh UP, 2023, pp. 132–57. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;A&lt;small&gt;rticles&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; Altieri, Charles. \"Stevens as Modernist: The Intensities of &lt;em&gt;Harmonium&lt;/em&gt;.\" &lt;em&gt;The Wallace Stevens Journal&lt;/em&gt;, vol. 47, no. 2, Fall 2023, pp. 156–63. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Dong, Feng. \"Stevensian &lt;em&gt;Dao&lt;/em&gt;, or the Possibilities of Change.\" &lt;em&gt;Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies&lt;/em&gt;, vol. 49, no. 2, Sept. 2023, pp. 175–98. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Eeckhout, Bart, and Florian Gargaillo. \"Still Whipping Hullabaloos among Spheres.\" &lt;em&gt;The Wallace Stevens Journal&lt;/em&gt;, vol. 47, no. 2, Fall 2023, pp. 131–43. &lt;p&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/p&gt; Goldfarb, Lisa. \"&lt;em&gt;Harmonium&lt;/em&gt; through the Years.\" &lt;em&gt;The ","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Moodus Noises","authors":"David Epstein","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922178","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Moodus Noises <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> David Epstein </li> </ul> <p><span> <em>Machemoodus, Native American term meaning \"the</em></span><span> <em>great noise of the earth\"; thus, the town named Moodus</em>,</span><span> <em>Connecticut, near where a geological feature has given rise</em></span><span> <em>to spontaneous chthonic sounds</em>.</span></p> <p><span>All solutions have long since taken their graves.</span><span>An elemental howl in the dark: behind your spectral dam,</span><span>angst accumulates. In southeastern Connecticut</span></p> <p><span>you traipse miles of forest, gliding the contours,</span><span>tracing altitude: stalking the vertiginous plane of white pine,</span><span>visiting empty mobile homes, retreating to trees,</span></p> <p><span>watching opossums and thinking how</span><span>the cost of self-awareness brings with it</span><span>incongruence. You reach into your ghost's throat and,</span></p> <p><span>constricting your erstwhile larynx, produce a sound.</span><span>Such battering of the air has been likened</span><span>to a pair of empty steel tanks attempting union,</span></p> <p><span>or to the distant keening of the earth itself. Once,</span><span>a couple lingered in the woods, contemplating post-high school ennui,</span><span>while their hands plied each other's corporeal liens.</span></p> <p><span>In the gray pre-dawn, along the beaten track of your wanderings,</span><span>you pursued what passes now for mystery,</span><span>as if, after centuries, you still had it in you to care. <strong>[End Page 112]</strong></span></p> David Epstein West Hartford, Connecticut Copyright © 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press ... </p>","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"135 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140156931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stevens, Germany, and the Churches","authors":"Philip McGowan","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922169","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wallace Stevens's \"Credences of Summer\" (1947), in particular section IV's articulation of \"the limits of reality,\" may be read as significantly German-influenced by connecting two distinct lines of inquiry: the poet's personal connection to Henry and Barbara Church, and his increased interest, from 1944, in genealogical researches on Pennsylvania. By 1947, Stevens's engagement with Germany had evolved from his early, romanticized identifications with a native peasantry to engage with post-WWII Germany as a concept of pure imagination.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140156938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Teacher, and: The Old Argentine Wandering","authors":"Ethan Yan","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922179","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> The Teacher, and: The Old Argentine Wandering <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Ethan Yan </li> </ul> <h2>The Teacher</h2> <p><em>(for Dr. Kraft)</em></p> <p><span>Aquinas taught the things of the world</span><span>Through the things of the sky and the blue</span><span>Infinity of his reason, but not tangling</span></p> <p><span>Like the river at the end of the mind</span><span>That taught the things of the sky</span><span>Through the apparitions of the sky.</span></p> <p><span>And one must imagine that this river,</span><span>A saraband of the sun and the stars</span><span>Tangling within itself, was a creation</span></p> <p><span>Of all things, and of the craftsman, incarnate,</span><span>Of all things, like the silent sepulcher distilled</span><span>From the night, nothing inside but the river itself</span></p> <p><span>And the kind, gray sun waking the planets</span><span>Across the evergreen eternity of the river changing</span><span>Continuously in a series approaching a final slate—</span></p> <p><span>There, in the definition and space of the sepulcher,</span><span>The sun, the river, and the grounding converged</span><span>Tangling, forever changed in perception. <strong>[End Page 113]</strong></span></p> <h2>The Old Argentine Wandering</h2> <p><span>Too much he has had with the world,</span><span>For many snowbound nights those birds have hung,</span><span>And many a night, bounded by the frost of the sky,</span></p> <p><span>The birds galloped across the direction</span><span>Of the valley, across the gliding night, within</span><span>The glimmering of the glass beads,</span></p> <p><span>But without the sight to see the birds,</span><span>He had forever remained bound by night—</span><span>Frozen by the bounding of the night,</span></p> <p><span>Which is the bounding within</span><span>Of the supposed self, which, boundless</span><span>In the perception of that same night,</span></p> <p><span>Supposed a new threshold to things, crossing</span><span>A total strait among the stars and orbiting not</span><span>The compass itself but the bound ideas. <strong>[End Page 114]</strong></span></p> Ethan Yan Columbia, Maryland Copyright © 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press ... </p>","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Poems of Our Desert Climate","authors":"J. Novalis Wolfe","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922177","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> The Poems of Our Desert Climate <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> J. Novalis Wolfe </li> </ul> <h2>I</h2> <p><span>Snowmelt lapping tips of \"Pink Flame\"</span><span><em>Nandina</em> beside an open window,</span><span>Pink petals dripping over berries,</span><span>Some frozen sound of watery silence</span><span>In a cold Chihuahuan desert.</span></p> <p><span>Our neighborhood trash truck drove by</span><span>In the morning with distant pinkish flame</span><span>In a watery snow beside sky island</span><span>Mountains: a quiet, still unravished</span><span>Thinking of stillness beyond petals.</span></p> <h2>II</h2> <p><span>Yet was it more than just one's babble</span><span>Of desert space (this sublime limit)</span><span>Thought before peddled Babeled sense?</span><span>If pinked petals spoke would we know</span><span><em>Nandina</em>, imperfect to pink ears?</span><span>Beyond numbed words, Thought's sense—its garbaged</span><span>Craving—merely smocks a still mind.</span></p> <h2>III</h2> <p><span>There we go again, the trash truck down</span><span>Our road like cold unfelt snowmelt gone;</span><span>Though now cactus appear greener, mesquite</span><span>Trees seem like keener streams of color</span><span>—Bare bright branches in a cold desert</span><span>Climate. (Perhaps there are places we</span><span>May know imperfectly, better than then.) <strong>[End Page 111]</strong></span></p> J. Novalis Wolfe Hereford, Arizona Copyright © 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press ... </p>","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"2012 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stevens's \"Peter Quince at the Clavier\" and the Pleasures of Merely Going Round","authors":"Christoph Irmscher","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922173","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author links a critical journey through \"Peter Quince at the Clavier\" with his own academic journey since completing, over thirty years ago in Germany, a dissertation that dealt with Wallace Stevens's poetry. A foray into artistic treatments of the \"Susanna and the Elders\" theme (from Albrecht Altdorfer to Thomas Hart Benton) highlights the extent to which Stevens explores, creatively responds to, and then detaches himself from the long-established voyeuristic implications of the story, using them to outline his own theory as to how we should read his poem and, indeed, poetry in general.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Infinite Humble Things\": Stevens and German Art of the Fin de Siècle","authors":"James Dowthwaite","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922171","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1909, Wallace Stevens wrote letters expressing his enthusiasm for a German art exhibition primarily in the realist and impressionist traditions, though there was some symbolist representation. Although Stevens seems not to have mentioned the artworks nor the artists again, this early attraction was reflective of enduring aspects of his poetry, particularly the impressionist aspects of his style.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}