03111oam 22004934a 450 991015029140332120251117085343.01-61075-612-6(CKB)3710000000942919(MiAaPQ)EBC4742060(OCoLC)966762797(MdBmJHUP)muse56701(Au-PeEL)EBL4742060(CaPaEBR)ebr11297940(CaONFJC)MIL970433(OCoLC)962844398(EXLCZ)99371000000094291920161014d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMr. Stevens' Secretary Poems /Frances Schenkkan1st ed.Fayetteville, [Arkansas] :University of Arkansas Press,2017.©20171 online resource (86 pages)Miller williams poetry prize1-68226-030-5 Intro -- Contents -- Harmonium -- Mr. and Mrs. -- Before Mr. Stevens -- Wasps -- She Encounters a Subtle Threat from the Future -- A Silence So Huge, There Is No "I" -- Mr. Stevens' Hat Band -- Her Father Sums Up -- Saturday Morning Gamble -- Asylum -- Her Husband's Worth -- First Spring in Hartford, 1937 -- Call and Response -- Grocery Store Parking Lot Reverie -- The Man with the Blue Guitar -- Mr. Stevens Inquires about Her Poetic Interests -- Elegy for Her Father-in-Law -- Upon Virginia Woolf's Death, 1941 -- An Awakening -- Mr. Stevens' Secretary Attempts a Fable -- Despite Her Sisters, She Keeps Up Hope -- Mr. Stevens' Secretary Considers Point of View -- Lady Bird -- Mr. Stevens and His Secretary Pause -- She Begins Short Story after Short Story -- After Hours -- The Absence of Romance in Her History -- What Else? -- Hartford Retreat -- A Daughter Sums Up -- She Takes a Letter to Mr. Henry Church, 1942 -- She Writes a Version of Herself into Exodus -- She's Hoping It Wasn't God -- When She Tired of the Bible -- Ideas of Order -- Mr. Stevens' Voice -- Mr. Stevens Will Pass -- Fidelity -- Marriage, Another Year -- Wonder Woman -- Pied a Terre -- O Savage Spirit -- Dead Cloud Season -- The News from Hartford -- Of Mere Being -- The Good Husband -- Marriage Therapy -- A Higher Form -- Back to Work -- Mr. Stevens and His Secretary, Five Years Later -- At His Service, 1955 -- Mr. Stevens' Secretary Transcribes a Poem -- Notes.Finalist, 2017 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy Collins "Forces an eye-opening change in perspective." --Billy Collins In Mr.Stevens' Secretary , a fictional assistant to Wallace Stevens juggles her roles as a mother, a wife, a believer, and a working woman.Miller Williams Poetry Prize SeriesAmerican poetry--20th centuryElectronic books. American poetry--20th century.813.54Schenkkan Frances1249182MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910150291403321Mr. Stevens' Secretary2894955UNINA