Cate Marvin Quotes

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

Cate Marvin

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• I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Argument
  • Admire
  • Realism