{"product_id":"the-palm-at-the-end-of-the-mind-isbn-9780679724452","title":"The Palm at the End of the Mind","description":"This selection of works by Wallace Stevens--the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet”--was first published in 1967. Edited by the poet's daughter Holly Stevens, it contains all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career, including some not printed in his earlier \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e. Included also is a short play by Stevens, \"Bowl, Cat and Broomstick.\"\"\u003ci\u003eThe Palm at the End of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, superbly edited by Holly Stevens, will be the definitive text for students and readers of Wallace Stevens for several decades. Unlike earlier selected volumes, it gives all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value. Its arrangement in probable order of composition clarifies the entire shape of Stevens development, particularly by its restoration of crucial late lyrics the poet simply forgot to include in the \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. Other major benefits given us by the volume include the convenience of having in one place the best of \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems, Opus Posthumous\u003c\/i\u003e, and the poems heretofore available only in \u003ci\u003eThe Necessary Angel\u003c\/i\u003e. Add to this the powerful early poem 'For an Old Woman in a Wig', the play \u003ci\u003eBowl, Cat and Broomstick\u003c\/i\u003e, the prose statement on the poetry of war, the restored lines of 'The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad,' and a number of vital textual corrections throughout, and some sense of the enormous value of this book will be achieved. Here is the indispensable presentation of a central American poet, the best and most representative of our time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-- Harold Bloom, Yale University\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWallace Stevens\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1879 and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1955. \u003ci\u003eHarmonium\u003c\/i\u003e, his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed by \u003ci\u003eIdeas of Order\u003c\/i\u003e (1936), \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Blue Guitar\u003c\/i\u003e (1937), \u003ci\u003eParts of a World\u003c\/i\u003e (1942), \u003ci\u003eTransport to Summer\u003c\/i\u003e (1947), \u003ci\u003eThe Auroras of Autumn\u003c\/i\u003e (1950), \u003ci\u003eThe Necessary Angel\u003c\/i\u003e (a volume of essays, 1951), \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens\u003c\/i\u003e (1954), and \u003ci\u003eOpus Posthumous\u003c\/i\u003e (1957; revised and corrected in 1989). Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949. He twice won the National Book Award in Poetry and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1955. From 1916 on, he was associated with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, of which he became vice president in 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304431964389,"sku":"NP9780679724452","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679724452.jpg?v=1767740860","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-palm-at-the-end-of-the-mind-isbn-9780679724452","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}