In The House Was Quiet, But the Mind Was Anxious, Nancy Dafoe makes a palimpsestic variation with the title poem that both acknowledges and redresses one of Wallace Stevens' seminal poetic demarcations, thus signaling both her own adoption of purpose and a departure from such teacher-mentors. Dafoe's purpose here is a heart-felt, poignant, unflinching reflection upon loss-indeed a series of losses that have caused her sensibility...
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