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Life Is Motion: Motion in Wallace Stevens

Helen Vendler will talk on motion in the poetry of Wallace Stevens. She says; “Nobody but Stevens would call a poem ‘Life is Motion.’ And nobody, later in life, would write another poem called ‘Chaos in Motion And Not in Motion.’” Vendler will be tracking the flux of poems where both nature and human beings reveal changes of motion and emotion in Stevens’ thought and language. His favorite natural symbol for our minds in motion is the weather; and of our life, he says: ‘It is not in the premise that reality / Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses / A dust, a force that traverses a shade.’”











When: Wed., Nov. 4, 2015 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
212-870-1600
Price: $25
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Helen Vendler will talk on motion in the poetry of Wallace Stevens. She says; “Nobody but Stevens would call a poem ‘Life is Motion.’ And nobody, later in life, would write another poem called ‘Chaos in Motion And Not in Motion.’” Vendler will be tracking the flux of poems where both nature and human beings reveal changes of motion and emotion in Stevens’ thought and language. His favorite natural symbol for our minds in motion is the weather; and of our life, he says: ‘It is not in the premise that reality / Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses / A dust, a force that traverses a shade.’”

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