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Article: Ode to life and works of Wallace Stevens: The renowned poet and Reading son is honored during a ceremony that also marks the start of the city's annual literary festival.
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- Reading Eagle (Reading, PA)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2007
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Byline: Ron Devlin
Oct. 2--Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Wallace Stevens was reincarnated Monday -- through his own words -- at the unveiling of a historical marker in front of his Reading birthplace.
Standing on the steps of 323 N. Fifth St., the three-story row house where Stevens grew up, Kutztown University professor Heather Thomas recited a poem inspired by a childhood journal and the poet's walks on Mount Penn.
Introspective, like much of Stevens' poetry, "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain" yearned for a secluded place "Where he could lie and, gazing down at the sea, recognize his unique and solitary home."
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