Helen Vendler, Words Chosen Out of Desire. One of those rare works of literary criticism, like Simone Weil’s Poem of Force, which is a beautiful artwork itself often. Great place to start reading Wallace Stevens.
Harold Bloom’s The Poems of Our Climate is also helpful, particularly with understanding the long poems, which Vendler doesn’t discuss; however, Bloom is inclined to theorizing and this will somewhat distract from his subject.
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