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Hardcover The Decomposer's Art: Ideas of Music in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens Book

ISBN: 0820410004

ISBN13: 9780820410005

The Decomposer's Art: Ideas of Music in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

This comprehensive study of the ideas of music in Wallace Stevens' poetry rereads Stevens as a poet whose compositional strategies assimilate musical forms and performative programs. The decomposer is the poet of qualification, who constantly explores the validity of developing variation as the best means for creating art not limited by system or medium. As both subject and strategy for poetry, music becomes Stevens' most frequently used figure...

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