<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6e6ecffd-42ae-4878-af04-2570221f89bf/82987AB5-64EB-42E6-9A01-B4D0F05CAF78/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/FE17F22E-A803-4398-86D2-F6B0E73CC6DA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2#"><P class="caption"> Wallace Stevens, right, with Robert Frost in Key West, circa 1940. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2#">Against his father’s wishes, he married Elsie Kachel, a beautiful but poorly educated girl of a class lower than his own. Nobody from his family attended the wedding, and Stevens never again visited or spoke to his parents during his father’s lifetime. The unfortunate marriage eventually failed, and in a bitter way. Stevens’s only child, Holly, told me that her mother was mentally il</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2#"><P>Although Stevens was always correct in his behavior, never criticizing his wife to others, the profound sadness of his life — estranged from his parents, unhappy with his marriage — emerged in poems never collected, like “Red Loves Kit”:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2#"><P><SPAN class="italic">Your yes her no, your no her yes . . . </SPAN> <SPAN class="italic">Her words accuse you of adulteries</SPAN> <SPAN class="italic">That sack the sun, though metaphysical.</SPAN> </P><P> <SPAN class="italic">        True, you may love</SPAN> <SPAN class="italic">And she have beauty of a kind, but such</SPAN> <SPAN class="italic">Unhappy love reveals vast blemishes</SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/82987AB5-64EB-42E6-9A01-B4D0F05CAF78/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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