The Palm at the End of the Mind Selected Poems and a Play

A collection that all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career. Edited by Holly Stevens, it includes some poems not printed in his earlierCollected Works.

Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 2, 1955.  Although he had contributed to the <b>Harvard Advocate</b> while in college, he began to gain general recognition only when Harriet Monroe included four of his poems in a sepcial 1914 wartime issue of <b>Poetry</b>.  <b>Harmonium</b>, his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed by <b>Ideas of Order</b> (1936), <b>The Man with the Blue Guitar</b> (1937), <b>Parts of a World</b> (1942), <b>Transport to Summer</b> (1947), <b>The Auroras of Autumn</b> (1950), <b>The Necessary Angel</b> (a volume of essays, 1951), <b>The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens</b> (1954), and <b>Opus Posthumous</b> (first p