Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: After Stevens Bart Eeckhout and Lisa Goldfarb; 2 Frost or Stevens? Servants of Two Masters Bonnie Costello; 3 The Strands of Modernism: Stevens beside the Seaside Lee M. Jenkins; 4 Hearing Stevens in Sylvia Plath Bart Eeckhout; 5 Moving the "Moo" from Stevensian Blank Verse: Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Prose Angus Cleghorn; 6 Henri Michaux's Elsewhere through the Lens of Stevens' Poetic Theory Axel Nesme; 7 Stevens across the Iron Curtain Justin Quinn; 8 Stevens and Seamus Heaney George S. Lensing

9 The Not So Noble Rider: Stevens, Oppen, Glück Edward Ragg10 The Stevens Wars Al Filreis; 11 Stevens' Musical Legacy: "The Huge, High Harmony" Lisa Goldfarb; 12 "Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds": Stevens, Susan Howe, and the Souls of the Labadie Tract Joan Richardson; 13 How John Ashbery Modified Stevens' Uses of "As" Charles Altieri; 14 Silly to Be Serious: Lateness and the Question of Late Style in Stevens and A. R. Ammons Juliette Utard; 15 Unanticipated Readers Lisa M. Steinman; 16 "This Song Is for My Foe": Olive Senior and Terrance Hayes Rewrite Stevens Rachel Galvin

17 "The California Fruit of the Ideal": Stevens and Robert Hass Rachel MalkinNotes on Contributors; Index