The true work of art...is not the work of the individual artist. It is time and it is place, as these perfect themselves.
—Wallace Stevens, Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (Vintage, 1965).
[Last evening was the twenty-third annual Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash. Cole Swensen was the speaker and her presentation was titled, "Perhaps the Truth Depends." She took us on a journey of quotes and pictures related to Stevens' habit of walking, plus some related history of walking poets.]
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