This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains: - andquot; Harmoniumandquot; - andquot; Ideas of Orderandquot; - andquot; The Man With the Blue Guitarandquot; - andquot; Parts of the Worldandquot; - andquot; Transport Summerandquot; - andquot; The Auroras of Autumnandquot; - andquot; The Rockandquot;

Wallace Stevens' unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called the "essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance. Now, for the first time, the works of America's supreme poet of the imagination are collected in one authoritative volume.