An eight-week literary seminar with Mark Scarbrough

From September 15, 2020, through November 3, 2020. 10:00 a.m. to 11:45 p.m via Zoom

Wallace Stevens: the business executive as poet, the metaphysician as Hartford Insurance VP, the hulking wallflower, the shy bar brawler, the last Romantic, the first post-modern, the father of self-referentiality, the heir to John Keats and Stéphane Mallarmé, the foil of Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway, the Republican Marxist, the quiet anarchist, the gawdy Puritan, the would-be sensualist in New England, the would-be prude in Key West. Stevens is all of these—and none. His poetry is arresting, mind-bending, and gorgeous. Its images are haunting; its philosophy, antic; its structure, impeccable. Join us as we set sail across the thirty years of his best work, starting with the early elliptical poems in Harmonium and moving toward the shattering “Auroras of Autumn.” To read his poetry is to find the world changed: what we all need.

To register, please email bushnellsage@gmail.com or use the 'contact us' link on our website bushnellsagelibrary.org.. You will receive an email acknowledgement within 2 business days.