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Man with the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens

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absoLUTELY yes this is one of his most iconic collections & rightly so. That title poem - his painterly and painters! inweaving. A masterclass in Ars Poetica

The thinking of art seems final when

The thinking of god is smoky dew.
The tune is space. The blue guitar

Becomes the place of things as they are,
A composing of senses of the guitar.
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