Illustrated Wallace Stevens — Depression Before Spring

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Depression Before Spring

The cock crows
But no queen rises.

The hair of my blonde
Is dazzling,
As the spittle of cows
threading the wind.

Ho! Ho!

But ki-ki-ri-ki
Brings no rou-cou,
No rou-cou-cou.

But no queen comes
In slipper green.


Song: Robert Wyatt, “Cuckoo Madame”

 

 

Illustrated Wallace Stevens Index
Anke Feuchtenberger’s Website

 

Illustrated Wallace Stevens Index and Introduction

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ARTIST INDEX

Derik Badman The Plain Sense of Things
Noah Berlatsky This Solitude of Cataracts
Lilli Carré Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
Warren Craghead The Rabbit As King of the Ghosts
Franklin Einspruch Of Mere Being
Edie Fake Floral Decorations for Bananas
Anja Flower Earthy Anecdote
Anke Feuchtenberger     Depression Before Spring
Shaenon Garrity The Emperor of Ice Cream
Blaise Larmee Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Vom Marlowe Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores
L. Nichols Frogs Eat Butterflies….
Paul Nudd Mud Master
Jason Overby Nomad Exquisite
Sean Michael Robinson    Sunday Morning (I)
James Romberger Madame La Fleurie
Mahendra Singh The Cuban Doctor
Shannon Smith The Sense of the Sleight of Hand Man
Edra Soto Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
Bert Stabler Flyer’s Fall
Marguerite Van Cook A High-Toned Old Christian Woman

 

 

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Illustrated Wallace Stevens roundtable. For this project, 21 artists have created illustrations and/or artwork based on a range of Wallace Stevens poems. (Update: The roundtable is now complete; all 21 artists with links to their work are listed above.)

Note that comments are closed on individual posts. This is therefore the place where you can comment on the roundtable as a whole or on individual work. We’d love to hear your thoughts!

This roundtable was inspired by this post, which was itself inspired by a discussion of the intersection of visual art and post-structuralism. This roundtable may or may not advance that conversation…but whether or no, it’s certainly been a joy to curate and participate in. I’d like to thank Derik Badman for technical assistance and all the artists for their contributions.

All artwork is copyright by the individual artists. The Wallace Stevens’ poems that are not in the public domain are owned by his heirs.

Here follows “(Pages of Illustrations.)“

Utilitarian Review 7/23/11

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News

The blog is going to be very busy. Starting tomorrow we have an exciting artists roundtable which will run through the week. After that it is looking as though Robert should be ready to do his Best Comics Poll results extravaganza in early August. So check back with us!

On HU

In our featured archive post, Jones, One of the Jones Boys, talks about visual aliens.

We started the week off with a meditation on Gasoline Alley and change by Sean Michael Robinson.

Robert Stanley Martin looked at Godard’s Les Carabiniers.

Franklin Einspruch discussed the Krazy Kat inspired abstractions of Walter Darby Bannard.

I expressed mixed feelings about Shimura Takako’s Wandering Son.

Richard Cook looked at ten types of stupid in transformers 3.

I posted a neo soul download mix.

Russ Maheras wondered why the Air Force gets such a bad rap in Super 8.

And Caroline Small…

Utilitarians Everywhere

At Splice Today I discuss the ecological black metal of Botanist.

I argue that Harry Potter is mediocre and Quidditch makes no sense.

And I talk about Tomas Sedlacek’s book The Economics of Good and Evil.

Other Links

Craig Fischer on Gene Colan.

Conor Friedersdorf on Obama’s broken promises.

Alyssa Rosenberg speculates on why people freak out at politics in their pop culture.

And Switchblade Sisters is available on netflix instant. Watch it!