Lytle Shaw’s rewriting of Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
We have added Lytle Shaw’s “The Confessions 2″—a poem that responds to Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”—to the Wallace Stevens section of the week 3 (rise of modernism: imagism) syllabus in ModPoPLUS. See the updated Stevens section below, with a links. We are making available: the text of Shaw’s poem; his explanation of “The Confessions 2” as a response; a new video in which we discuss “The Confessions 2” and Stevens with Lytle Shaw himself.
PART EIGHT: WALLACE STEVENS
8.1 read Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”: LINK TO TEXT
8.2 watch (or listen to) discussion of Stevens’s “The Snow Man”: LINK TO VIDEO; LINK TO AUDIO
8.3 read Lytle Shaw’s “The Confessions 2,” a response to “The Snow Man”: LINK TO TEXT [LINK TO TEXT COPY]
8.4 watch discussion with Lytle Shaw on his response to “The Snow Man”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
8.5 read Lytle Shaw’s explanation of “The Confessions 2”: LINK TO TEXT
8.6 read Wallace Stevens’s “Large Red Man Reading”: LINK TO TEXT
8.7 watch discussion of Stevens’s “Large Red Man Reading”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
8.8 read Wallace Stevens’s “The Plain Sense of Things”: LINK TO TEXT
8.9 read Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”: LINK TO TEXT
8.10 listen to a discussion of “The Poem That Took the Place…” with Susan Howe & others: LINK TO POEMTALK
8.11 watch a 1-hour ModPo webcast on Stevens’s “Plain Sense” & “The Poem That Took the Place”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
8.12 watch a 4-minute discussion on how many blackbirds are in Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways…”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
8.12 watch video of 13 ModPo people each interpreting Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways…”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
8.13 read a list of 30 Stevens poems recommended by Al Filreis: LINK TO TEXT
8.14 read Stevens’s “Disillusionment of 10 O’Clock”: LINK TO TEXT
8.15 watch discussion of Stevens’s “Disillusionment of 10 O’Clock”: LINK TO VIDEO
