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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

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

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

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.