tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6454885749878872797..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Wallace Stevens: Seventy Years Later, from The Rock ("It is an illusion that we were ever alive")Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35090223724113943332016-05-19T01:23:56.051-07:002016-05-19T01:23:56.051-07:00Thanks guys. Yes, truth hurts -- the opening lines...Thanks guys. Yes, truth hurts -- the opening lines here feel it. Rare revelation for Stevens. <br /><br />He was perhaps in a time of troubled passage -- troubled sleep, troubled dreams. <br /><br />Can it be that, inescapably, a world slips in somehow, whatever the construction of self-protection? <br /><br />This poem is the first of a series of three. <br /><br />Have just now done up the third:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/wallace-stevens-forms-of-rock-in-night.html" rel="nofollow">Wallace Stevens: Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15419647814920344042016-05-18T06:32:34.710-07:002016-05-18T06:32:34.710-07:00another knockout combo of poetry and pictures Tom....another knockout combo of poetry and pictures Tom...I thank you particularly for the poem which I don't remember, either old age or post-op brain forgetfulness but it is now a new favorite...Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-65436074432608996532016-05-18T05:22:03.143-07:002016-05-18T05:22:03.143-07:00An amazing poem. But the truth hurts.An amazing poem. But the truth hurts.tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.com