Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens and José Rodriguez Feo

by Wallace Stevens, José Rodríguez Feo, José Rodríguez-Feo

The letter from Jose Rodriguez Feo that prompted Stevens's poem was the third in a ten-year correspondence (1944-54) between the poet and the young Cuban, who quickly became Stevens's "most exciting correspondent." The two shared a Harvard education, both were anxious to see Stevens translated for a Cuban audience, and each had an enduring admiration for Santayana, whose awareness of the cultural tensions between the Northern and Southern hemispheres...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822306700
• ISBN13: 9780822306702
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"