February 2011
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Curatorial Proposal: 13 Ways of Looking at a...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Noticing. Remembering. Daydreaming. Appreciating. The narrator in Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” sees a blackbird with the fullness of his humanity.
Broken into thirteen short sections, the poem translates a blackbird into myth, symbol, and metaphor, then grounds it in nature as an observable fact.
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It was evening...
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