ABSTRACT
My title for this brief, whimsical coda is not actually “Wallace Stevens and the New York School” but, rather, “Wallace Stevens of the New York School.” I want to write less about Stevens’ influence on, for instance, John Ashbery and Frank O’Hara than about Stevens (although he was older than these then-emergent poets) as a kind of cohort, operating in the early 1950s in a parallel universe of New York School-style non-narrative discontinu-ity and I-do-this-I-do-that seriality—a mode that derived from some of the same sources but separately, by way indirectly of modern and contempo-rary painting more than directly through contemporary poetry. In the end, my purpose is to construct a sample of New York School Stevens.
