Alan Filreis

TL;DR: The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the record of a life and times.

TL;DR: In this article, which side are you on? Part I. Arrogations: 2. The poet and the depression 3. Convergences: 4. The rage for order 5. Turmoil in the middle ground: politicizing the lyric 6. Toward a rhyming of opposites: 'Owl's Clover' 7. A million people on one string Notes Index.

TL;DR: The letter from Jose Rodriguez Feo that prompted the poem was the third in a ten-year correspondence (1944-54) between the poet and the young Cuban, who quickly became Stevens's "most exciting correspondent" as mentioned in this paper.