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Heather McHugh: The Stuff of Language as Packed by Wallace Stevens (July 2009)

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Heather McHugh reflects on the metaphor of a poem as a container, and on the ways such a vehicle can convey something larger than itself.  Drawing on prose by Wittgenstein and on poems by William Dickey and Rilke, McHugh devotes the majority of her lecture to Wallace Stevens; she explores how poems such as “Poetry is a Destructive Force,” “Jumbo,” “Imago,” and “The Immense Dew of Florida” are designed to be exceeded by what they contain. 

Category: Residency Craft Lectures Tag: Poetry
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