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Thought of the day.....
The pressure of reality overwhelms our sense of perspective.
#WallaceStevens

A Postcard from the Volcano

Namatjira et al, 2025

Prompted by the text of the eponymous Wallace Stevens poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43432/a-postcard-from-the-volcano

Prompts in description

#aiart #stablediffusion #fooocus #surreal #wallacestevens

¡Oye! The former Emperor of Ice Cream was just reminded that this is National Ice Cream Day! Thank goodness I was reminded. #IceCream #NationalIceCreamDay #EmperorOfIceCream #WallaceStevens

The former Emperor of Ice Cream knows how to snack: half chocolate chip and half ginger. #IceCream #snack #WallaceStevens

I’ve been reading some #WallaceStevens today (An Ordinary Evening in New Haven).

And although some parts read like a description of the ideas behind a poem, and some parts I frankly can’t make full sense of, there are phrases and sections that do I think evoke something unusual, beautiful and true:

John Davidson grew up in Greenock, a son of the manse – although he soon rebelled against his father’s religious beliefs. A prolific writer, he influenced many #Modernist writers such as WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf & Hugh MacDiarmid

#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thCentury #Victorian #Modernism #WBYeats #WallaceStevens #TSEliot #VirginiaWoolf #HughMacDiarmid

2/2

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson

Anecdote of the Jar

Based on the poem by Wallace Stevens

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14575/anecdote-of-the-jar

Prompt in description

#poem #wallacestevens #aiart #fooocus #stablediffusion #surrealism

Am currently pondering the wonderful fact that both #CharlesIves and #WallaceStevens were insurance execs for their "day jobs" -- at roughly the same time, too.

Ives, however, retired earlier in his life (1930, according to Wikipedia), while Stevens stayed on until nearly his death.

So much of Ives's critical work was composed in the pre-war years that seem pretty critical to Stevens development, too -- the mid-1910s.

“There must be something of the peasant in every poet.” — Wallace Stevens

#writing #poetry #WallaceStevens

“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”
― Wallace Stevens
#poetry #literature #wallacestevens

“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”
#wallacestevens
#poetry #LitStudies

So I'm at a Lou Malnati's in fucking Phoenix AZ, of all places, with Ramon.

#Beer and real, actual #pizza goddamn.

Rage for order, pale Ramon. Deep dish awaits.
#wallacestevens
#theideaoforderinphoenixaz

Just in time for #stpatricksday the best Irish band you may have never heard of, Emperor of Ice Cream a la the #wallacestevens poem. My fave track is "High Rise, Low Rise" from their debut album "No Sound Ever Dies." #bandcamp

#music #poetry #guitars #cork

https://emperoroficecream.bandcamp.com/

A great reading for a wintertime day
#poetry #Poem #wallacestevens #mindofwinter #snowman

https://modpo.org/2021/02/19/the-mind-of-winter-collaborative-close-reading-by-zoom-of-stevenss-the-snow-man/