Bantams In Pine-Woods

Wallace StevensWallace Stevens

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Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan

Of tan with henna hackles, halt!****** universal ****, as if the sun

Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail.Fat!  Fat!  Fat!  Fat!  I am the personal.

Your world is you.  I am my world.You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat!

Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines,Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs,

And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.

Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens

1879 - 1955/Male/AmericanA Modernist poet whose meditative and philosophical poems' moods rotate between ecstasy, apathy, and reluctance between ecstasy and apathy. (wikipedia)

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