Great Regulars: You get a good sense

of [Wallace] Stevens' ideas about real and unreal in his "Study of Two Pears," a poem that blends the imagery of a common fruit with the abstract vision of a painting. It's a poetic parallel to Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase." The pear is less food and more conceived aesthetic form. It is less from nature and more for an occasion to inspire artifice. Less experience and more invention.

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Landmark art show inspires the career of a master poet

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