Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that continues to intrigue many readers. Though Stevens tried hard to separate his poetry from his profession, legal theorist Thomas Grey shows that he did not ultimately succeed. After stressing how little connection appears on the surface between the two parts of Stevens's life, Grey argues that in its pragmatic account of human reasoning, the poetry distinctively illuminates the workings of the law.
In this important extension of the recent...
Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that continues to intrigu...
I could hear it coming. Soft, but seething. Like whispered profanity. Like a matchstick burning, slowly, backwards, ready to fire up at its sulfurous tip. I could taste it. Like blood, but sweeter. Like candy, but far more serious. So began the experimental dream safari into macabre madness that J. Ambrose Sweigart compiled in volume one of Whispers and Shadows. Volume two finds Thomas Grey still in the woods, struggling with the realization that his dreams are his reality - and yours - while also trying to understand the true nature of the universe, and racing to stop a mysterious force from...
I could hear it coming. Soft, but seething. Like whispered profanity. Like a matchstick burning, slowly, backwards, ready to fire up at its sulfurous ...
