The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems

Witty, ironic, and thought-provoking, the experimental style of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) forever changed the landscape of modern verse. This collection includes 82 works by the 1955 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, including such oft-studied compositions as "Sunday Morning," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and the title piece.

An executive with a Hartford, Connecticut-based insurance company, modernist poet Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) published his first poems at the age of 35 and wrote most of his major works when he was well into his 50s. A poet of ideas, he explored the nature of reality and the power of the imagination.

Carnet de Voyage	1	(3)
From a Junk	4	(1)
Home Again	4	(1)
Phases	4	(2)
Tea	6	(1)
Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges	6	(1)
Peter Quince at the Clavier	7	(3)
The Silver Plough-Boy	10	(1)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	10	(1)
Sunday Morning	11	(2)
Domination of Black	13	(1)
Tattoo	14	(1)
The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches	15	(1)
Song	15	(1)
Six Significant Landscapes	16	(2)
Inscription for a Monument	18	(1)
Bowl	18	(1)
The Worms at Heaven's Gate	19	(1)
Primordia	19	(3)
To the Roaring Wind	22	(1)
Valley Candle	22	(1)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	23	(2)
The Wind Shifts	25	(1)
Meditation	26	(1)
Gray Room	26	(1)
Explanation	27	(1)
Theory	27	(1)
The Plot Against the Giant	28	(1)
"Lettres d'un Soldat"	29	(6)
Anecdote of Men by the Thousand	35	(1)
Metaphors of a Magnifico	36	(1)
Depression Before Spring	37	(1)
Earthy Anecdote	37	(1)
Moment of Light	38	(2)
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle	40	(4)
Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty	44	(3)
Nuances of a Theme by Williams	47	(1)
Anecdote of Canna	47	(1)
The Apostrophe to Vincentine	48	(1)
Life Is Motion	49	(1)
Fabliau of Florida	49	(1)
Homunculus et La Belle Etoile	50	(1)
The Weeping Burgher	51	(1)
Peter Parasol	52	(1)
Exposition of the Contents of a Cab	53	(1)
Ploughing on Sunday	53	(1)
Banal Sojourn	54	(1)
The Indigo Glass in the Grass	55	(1)
Anecdote of the Jar	55	(1)
Of the Surface of Things	55	(1)
The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician	56	(1)
The Place of the Solitaires	56	(1)
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage	57	(1)
Colloquy with a Polish Aunt	58	(1)
Invective Against Swans	58	(1)
Infanta Marina	59	(1)
Cortege for Rosenbloom	60	(1)
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad	61	(1)
Palace of the Babies	62	(1)
From the Misery of Don Joost	63	(1)
The Doctor of Geneva	63	(1)
Gubbinal	64	(1)
The Snow Man	64	(1)
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon	65	(1)
The Cuban Doctor	66	(1)
Another Weeping Woman	66	(1)
Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds	67	(1)
Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb	67	(1)
The Load of Sugar-Cane	68	(1)
Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores	68	(1)
The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws	69	(1)
Lulu Gay	70	(1)
Lulu Morose	70	(1)
Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion	71	(1)
Stars at Tallapoosa	72	(1)
Bantams in Pine-Woods	72	(1)
The Ordinary Women	73	(1)
Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs	74	(1)
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman	75	(1)
O, Florida, Venereal Soil	76	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	77	(1)
To the One of Fictive Music	77	(2)
Alphabetical List of Titles	79	(3)
Alphabetical List of First Lines	82

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