Wallace Stevens – författare

This collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets was first published in America in 1954. The Collected Poems was prepared by Stevens himself, shortly before his death, and contains all of his published books of poetry, covering more than four decades: from the brilliant rococo lyrics of Harmonium, through the large-scale orchestrations of his middle years, to the magnificent austere lyrics of 'The Rock', which first appeared in the Collected Poems, Stevens's poetry meditated unremittingly upon the relation between the world and the imagination. 'He seems to me - and sems to my readers, I am sure - one of the true poets of our century, someone whom the world will keep on reading just as it keeps on listening to Vivaldi or Scarlatti, looking at Tiepolo or Poussin. His best poems are the poetry of a man fully human - of someone sympathetic, magnanimous, both brightly and deeply intelligent; the poems see, feel, and think with equal success; they treat with mastery that part of existence which allows of mastery, and experience the rest of it with awe or sadness or delight.' - Randall Jarrell, Poetry and the Age'One of the most considerable poets of the last hundred years...Poems that are as distinguished as any written in this century.' - Thom Gunn, London Magazine

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and the new titles within a single embracing cover solution. A major reissue program is scheduled, to include classic individual collections from each decade, some of which have long been unavailable: Wallace Stevens's Harmonium and Ezra Pound's Personae from the 1920s; W.H. Auden's Poems (1930); Robert Lowell's Life Studies from the 1950s; John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs and Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings from the 1960s; Ted Hughes's Gaudete and Seamus Heaney's Field Work from the 1970s; Michael Hofmann's Acrimony and Douglas Dunn's Elegies from the 1980s. Timed to celebrate publication of Seamus Heaney's new collection, Electric Light, the relaunch is intended to re-emphasize the predominance of Faber Poetry, and to celebrate a series which has played a shaping role in the history of modern poetry since its inception in the 1920s.

Wallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth century America, his unique voice combining meditative speculation with what he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry', in an oeuvre of astonishing profusion and exuberance.The Selected Poems was compiled by the poet at the request of Faber & Faber, in 1953, shortly before his death, and was intended to be representative of the range of his acheievement, from the whimsical and exotic lyrical inventions of Harmonium to the pondered large-scale and crafted masterpieces of his middle years.

A Stanford University Press classic.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) blev 1900-talets mest omskrivne poet i USA. Denna utgåva innehåller många korta och ett antal långa dikter ur alla hans diktsamlingar. Från debuten med "Harmonium" vid 43 års ålder till det sista diktverket "The Rock", som utgavs dagen innan han fyllde 75 år, i "Collected Poems", presenteras här Stevens hela spännvidd som poet. Dessutom är originalet med som parallelltext. Alla hans aforismer, "Adagia", publicerade först i "Opus Posthmous", finns också med i denna volym. Först mot slutet av sitt liv fick Stevens lyrik större uppmärksamhet och han utnämndes till hedersdoktor i litteratur vid flera universitet. Han fick då också många priser för sin diktning, bl.a. erhöll han 1950 och 1954 års National Book Award i poesi och belönades med 1955 års Pulitzer Prize i poesi. "Poesi är en fasan som försvinner i snårskogen." "Poesi förhöjer känslan för verkligheten." "Poesi är en förnyelse av erfarenhet." "Poesi är språkets glädje (fröjd)." "Poesi är en kur för själen." ur "Adagia"

Essäerna består av de föreläsningar som Wallace Stevens höll vid olika tillfällen under 1940-talet. De präglas därför av ett direkt tilltal som dramatiserar själva tankeprocessen.