633 Squadron by Frederick Smith
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), one of the leading poets of the twentieth century, continues to influence a wide range of poets writing today. However, an image persists of Stevens as an aesthete who was politically removed from his times and who also exhibited sexist and racist tendencies. Jacqueline Vaught Brogan offers careful readings from across the Stevens canon to demonstrate that, contrary to such enduring earlier assessments, Stevens's work over the years shows poetic and political changes that merge with his growing ethical concerns.
Brogan traces Stevens's evolving poetic practices along three major lines that often intersected. She situates the beginnings of Stevens's development within his early resistance to the pressures of reality on the imagination, an artistic stand that pitted him against the objective poetry exemplified in the work of William Carlos Williams. Then, in the midst of Stevens's career, World War I moved him forward with new poetic responsibilities both to witness the current world and to guide readers into their future. The emergence of an almost feminist vision defines Stevens's third line of development. Finally, in addition to identifying these developmental stages, Brogan addresses the undercurrent of race throughout Stevens's work. According to Brogan, Stevens not only changed but matured over time. What began as an aesthetic violence within, or a girding against such violence without as social unrest and war, rapidly evolved during Stevens's middle years into a set of perceptions and practices increasingly responsive to his times.
Smith, Frederick: - Born and raised in Detroit, Frederick Smith is a graduate of the University of Missouri Journalism School and Loyola University Chicago. A finalist for the 2004 Pen Center Emerging Voices Fellowship, and a member of the 2004 VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation at the University of San Francisco), Fred is an advocate for social justice and equality issues. He currently lives in the Los Angeles area. Down For Whatever is his first novel, Readers can contact him at www.fredericksmith.net.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780727846693 |
| ISBN 10 | 0727846698 |
| Title | 633 Squadron |
| Author | Frederick Smith |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Severn House Publishers |
| Year published | 1994-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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