Graham and Scott together have created a very eye-catching look at water in many of its forms. The concrete poems only add to the meaning. It is very well done.

This would be a perfect book to introduce concrete poetry in a classroom environment.

my 8 year old son, who has encouraged and directed this review, thinks this is an excellent book because he loves water, is an avid swimmer and enjoys creative writing. he feels this book has given him a good introduction into modern poetry and has sparked his interest in other books of similar style or theme.

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OK so I'm not a trained critic and this is just my opinion. Does anyone else see the obvious artifice in his poetry? Constructed to tried and trusted formulae. The other reviews speak of his broad spectrum of subject matter. Reading some of his material, he knows nothing first hand of what he is writing. Maybe I am a sentimentalist, but I prefer poetry to be written from real expereince, from the heart. I find Stevens' writing literally competent, but I can't ever imagine it moving me. I need something deeper, truer.

Stevens is a national treasure. This is poetry of and about the imagination, but it is grounded in our real life experience of things. One should read his work as one would listen to great music, let it flow through you...but don't try too hard to comprehend it intellectually, at least, not on first reading it. If I had to choose one book to take to a desert island it would be this one.

Who knew that the self-possessed and elegant verse of Wallace Stevens actually masked an insecure, nervous man of choleric temperament? Not me. Kermode, a Stevens scholar and biographer, has done a good job of not merely reprinting here the familiar but of finding some true surprises, too. For example, this verse, written in Stevens' 40th year to a college literary magazine that was sponsoring a competition:

I Want to Win The Darned Contest

Please let me win
your poetry contest
I'd like to be a lucky winner today.
I'm dreaming of the fame that will
ensue if you call me to utter
the words that make it worth while:
You're a winner, you're not a loser
any more
you totally have what it takes to
write a poem
that moves us
without making us puke.
Please god, that's what I need to
hear from you.
OK? OK.
Thanks again.
Very Truly Yours,
Wallace Stevens
Vice President.

The book taught me a lot about this great American poet.

This book definitely gives someone all of the basic computer knowledge he/she will ever need. I think it is a good book to learn from, but nothing is perfect, so I gave it a 4.