Stevens’s “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch” (with Hilton Als)
We have now added a new Wallace Stevens poem to the ModPoPLUS week 3 syllabus. It’s “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch.” We have the text. We have a recording of Stevens’s reading the poem (from PennSound). And we have a new 6-minute video clip from a conversation Al Filreis moderated with art critic, memoirist, New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als. In this clip, Al and Hilton talk about the idea of the muse, and the possible intersubjectivity of artist and mode/muse/inspiration. Here is the video, and see below for all of the Stevens materials in ModPoPLUS week 3 currently, with the new items at the bottom of the list.
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 watch discussion of Stevens’s “The Snow Man” led by Al Filreis: LINK TO VIDEO (1:36:00)
8.6 read Lytle Shaw’s explanation of “The Confessions 2”: LINK TO TEXT
8.7 read Wallace Stevens’s “Large Red Man Reading”: LINK TO TEXT
8.8 watch discussion of Stevens’s “Large Red Man Reading”: LINK TO VIDEO[OFFSITE COPY]
8.9 read Wallace Stevens’s “The Plain Sense of Things”: LINK TO TEXT
8.10 read Wallace Stevens’s “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”: LINK TO TEXT
8.11 listen to a discussion of “The Poem That Took the Place…” with Susan Howe & others: LINK TO POEMTALK
8.12 watch a 1-hour ModPo webcast on Stevens’s “Plain Sense” & “The Poem That Took the Place”: LINK TO VIDEO[OFFSITE COPY]
8.13 watch a 4-minute discussion on how many blackbirds are in Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways…”: LINK TO VIDEO[OFFSITE COPY]
8.14 watch video of 13 ModPo people each interpreting Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways…”: LINK TO VIDEO[OFFSITE COPY]
8.15 watch a discussion of section 1 of “Thirteen Ways…”: LINK TO VIDEO (6 mins.)
8.16 watch a further discussion of Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY] (10 mins.)
8.17 read a list of 30 Stevens poems recommended by Al Filreis: LINK TO TEXT
8.18 read Stevens’s “Disillusionment of 10 O’Clock”: LINK TO TEXT
8.19 watch discussion of Stevens’s “Disillusionment of 10 O’Clock”: LINK TO VIDEO
8.20 read Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar”: LINK TO TEXT
8.21 watch discussion of “Anecdote of the Jar” with Robert von Hallberg: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]
8.22 watch another discussion of Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar”: LINK TO VIDEO
8.23 watch yet another discussion of Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar”: LINK TO VIDEO
8.24 read Stevens’s “The Plot against the Giant”: LINK TO TEXT
8.25 watch discussion of “The Plot against the Giant” with Charles Altieri: LINK TO VIDEO
8.26 read Stevens’s “Gray Room”: LINK TO TEXT
8.27 watch discussion of Stevens’s “Gray Room”: LINK TO VIDEO
8.28 watch discussion of various poems by Stevens with Kate Colby, Mónica de la Torre, Aldon Nielsen, and Tyrone Williams: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY] (1 hour 17 mins.)
8.29 read Stevens’s “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch”: LINK TO TEXT
8.30 listen to Stevens’s perform “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch”: LINK TO AUDIO
8.31 watch Hilton Als discuss the muse in “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch”: LINK TO VIDEO (6 mins.)
8.29 read Stevens’s “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch”: LINK TO TEXT
8.30listen to Stevens’s perform “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch”: LINK TO AUDIO
8.30 watch Hilton Als discuss the muse in “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch”: LINK TO VIDEO (6 mins.)
