Book of Stevens-inspired verse to be published

Published on Thursday, July 30th, 2009

"The vivid transparence that you bring is peace."

"The vivid transparence that you bring is peace."

University of Iowa press will publish an anthology of poems inspired by the work of Wallace Stevens, according to a press release. Visiting Wallace, edited by Dennis Barone and James Finnegan, is slated for publication this September. It will feature work by John Ashbery, Paul Auster, John Berryman, Robert Bly, Cate Marvin, Robert Creeley, W. S. Di Piero, Annie Finch, Forrest Gander, Dana Gioia, Peter Gizzi, Edward Hirsch, Richard Howard, Susan Howe, Donald Justice, Ann Lauterbach, Robert Lowell, Paul Mariani, James Merrill, Marianne Moore, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, David St. John, Carl Sandburg, Ravi Shankar, Mark Strand, William Carlos Williams, Charles Wright and others.