Re: 9 Ways of Looking at a Bananafish
William Hochman (wh14@is9.nyu.edu)
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 10:58:33 -0400 (EDT)
I would say that Stevens makes music of langauge and ideas in his poetry
just as I like to say that Salinger makes poetry in his fiction...
(((and I put my money where my lit values are--I own first eds of most of
both these writers and no one else!) (Chills, I'm expecting a call from a
bookseller on the rarest first ed of RHTRBC&SAI--the one without the
dedication--if this is too much boasting, maybe the parenthesis will
protect me?)))
I confess my problem with the famous Stevens poem and claim
Traeskediscophopia (sp) --Scottie, can easil give us the correct term
spelling and brief definintion.
Ok, ok, maybe I wasn't "sick" but "sic" (though my history of refusing
anything with the number in question goes back, way back and is only
excepted by things such as Stevens great poetry.)
will