{"title":"For The Moment, at Least","authors":"Jacque Vaught Brogan","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2024.a922175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922175","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 --> For The Moment, at Least <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Jacque Vaught Brogan </li> </ul> <p>Notre Dame</p> <p>October 12–13, 2023</p> <p><span>The Poem is mad. In fact, it almost refused to meet</span><span>This year. But it showed up today, saying,</span><span> \"I don't want to talk about it.</span><span>Any of it. At all. Even if it is true</span><span>That your 'unprecedented' wildfires have 'reversed</span><span>Seven years' progress in cleaning our air,'</span><span> \"it is just too easy</span><span>To recall the odd orange haze that, all of June,</span><span>Sullied the sky and dimmed the sun. Even if it is true</span><span>That 'dangerous particulates' stretched all the way</span><span>From Canada past Florida, it is just too simple</span><span>To underscore how the sumacs have suffered the effect—</span><span>How they are 'hung with dried leaves, /</span><span>Clinging to broken branches like dead moths.'</span><span>(Your words, dear friend, not mine.)\"</span></p> <p><span>The Poem is, frankly, being pissy. \"And,\" it continues</span><span>To complain, \"even if the extensive drought and heat</span><span>Through summer's end blighted the corn and wheat</span><span>Of the entire Midwest, it is too facile, by far, to turn</span><span>To the trees and say, 'The oak leaves droop</span><span>like dirty gloves' or that 'Patches in the maples</span><span>are missing, / Having turned a crackled brown /</span><span>Before dropping far too early, / Already</span><span>mere leaf-trash on the ground.'\"</span></p> <p><span> It refuses to talk about it—</span><span>All the suffocating earthquakes and floods elsewhere—</span><span>And cringes when it cries that it didn't want to hear</span><span>About the babies and beheadings or that now</span><span>There is \"No safe place left in Gaza.\"</span></p> <p><span>\"It takes courage,\" the Poem insists,</span><span>\"—or can we still say, 'real <em>chutzpah'</em>?—to report that last month</span><span>'The Banyan Tree on Maui,' though seemingly burned</span><span>Beyond hope, was 'showing sprouts on its lower limbs,'</span><span>And that just this past week, the Banyan is re-leafing,</span><span>Against all odds, 'even in its upper canopy.' <strong>[End Page 107]</strong></span></p> <p><span> \"SO?—WHAT OF THIS?,\" the Poem demands.</span><span>\"What OF it? Dare you admit (much less describe)</span><span>How today, at this rendezvous by the lakes, we see poplars</span><span>And Northern Ash still fanning full green leaves—</span><span>Waving them in quiet applause to this changing season?</span><span>Or that here and there random leaves, having reached</span><span>Their longed-for color, let go, make clicking sounds</span><span>At first, among the blowing upper branches,</span><span>Then drift, side to side, riding the soft breeze</span><span>Through light and shadowed limbs, before landing—</s","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140150108","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":"Bart Eeckhout, Lisa Goldfarb","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2023.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2023.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Altieri, Charles. Modernist Poetry and the Limitations of Materialist Theory: The Importance of Constructivist Values. U of New Mexico P, 2021. Eeckhout, Bart, and Lisa Goldfarb. The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Huang, Yunte. Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics. U of Chicago P, 2022. Koethe, John. Thought and Poetry: Essays on Romanticism, Subjectivity, and Truth. Bloomsbury, 2022. Tan, Ian. Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"128 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42338434","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":"Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity by Ian Tan (review)","authors":"Krzysztof Ziarek","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Goldfarb engage these problems from an original direction via a provocative comment from Stevens: “Personally, I like words to sound wrong” (L 340). Stevens’s preference is observed in lines that are simultaneously stunning and challenging to pronounce, such as the conclusion of the opening stanza of “The Plain Sense of Things”: “Inanimate in an inert savoir” (CPP 428). Eeckhout and Goldfarb subtly reveal the sonic complexity of that line and present it as characteristic of “a poet who actively foregoes the satisfaction of harmonic arrival” (72). The co-authors cite Theodor Adorno’s essay “Music, Language, and Composition” as a guide to their approach to Stevens. Music and language, Adorno writes, both entail “a temporal succession of articulated sounds that are more than just sound” (qtd. on 3), which is to say, sounds organized in non-arbitrary, expressive ways. “Applying such principles to our readings of Stevens’s poems,” Eeckhout and Goldfarb write, “helps to accentuate the musicality intrinsic to them” (4). The term “musicality” is helpful here. It indicates an aesthetic property which music models but of which music is not the only example. Maybe, if we follow Eeckhout and Goldfarb’s investigations, and experiment with the uses of terms like melody for literary criticism, we can begin to describe “poetic music” as the particular kind of music it is.","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"117 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42248760","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":"An Invitation to the Idea of Wallace Stevens","authors":"Brendan Yates","doi":"10.1353/wsj.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40622,"journal":{"name":"WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"103 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42579600","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}
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