--- product_id: 28770393 title: "Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire" brand: "helen vendler" price: "1937508₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/28770393-wallace-stevens-words-chosen-out-of-desire store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire **Brand:** helen vendler **Price:** 1937508₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by helen vendler - **How much does it cost?** 1937508₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/28770393-wallace-stevens-words-chosen-out-of-desire) ## Best For - helen vendler enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted helen vendler brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire ## Images ![Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51j+-atDFvL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Helen Rocks *by B***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2005* I recently finished reading this. It changed my perception of Stevens from an aloof obscurantist into a poet of melancholic desire. It's a short book which reveals his harshness, desire, secrecies and perfection of magnitude. He could be harsh with himself, he desired even as a septuagenarian, his secrecies were: using "he" or "she" instead of "I"; burying the emotional heart of a poem in the middle instead of stating it in the beginning or end; placing the context of the poem in his own work as well as his predecessors (particularly Keats); misleading titles; and his allusiveness. The final chapter covers Stevens' handling of the orders of magnitude between body, mind, garments, environment and nature. It illustrates how he reimagined the differences of magnitude between these elements in successive poems, culminating in The River of Rivers in Connecticut (which I happen to cross twice daily on my commute.) Included are some quotes from Stevens' Opus Posthumous, which prompted me to want to check that out, too.My vote for favorite Vendler sentence in this book is on page 58: "If there is no medium of verbal solubility, perhaps one can only imagine two immiscible liquids with a metonymic impermeability." It seems that every book I've read of hers is usually very clearly written, but has one trademark sentence like that in it. I love it! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ fast, smooth transaction A+ *by T***D on Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2019* fast, smooth transaction A+ ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Poetry as Question *by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2007* I was reading yesterday a review in The New Yorker about the recent books on atheism: how good it is and how true, and it struck me how little room there is in our culture's collective mind for independent question. We know all about God, both his existence and his non-existence. We're big knowers of metaphysical things. But really we know next to nothing, and mostly we are not aware enough to even realize that. But if one begins to realize, one finds oneself with very little personal or cultural company, which is why I am so grateful to Helen Vendler for this group of lectures on Stevens.Her discussions of Emperor of Ice Cream and A Plain Sense of Things in another book were my introduction to Stevens' work, prior to that I had thought he was not worth the trouble. It turns out that he is, to use a phrase he never would have used, an incredible poet - incredible in the sense of astoundingly good, not literally incredible. But incredible because often in his work one all at once recognizes a thought, an intellectual intuition one never expected to find expressed anywhere, let alone a 20th cenury poem. Like an unexpected sequence of chords that tears you apart.Helen Vendler has a talent for getting to the essence of poems and poets, getting to the question at the core of the words. Poetry isn't really an end in itself, no art is. It is the artifice by which we understand better that of which we are merely moments. Which is to say that great poets and those who introduce them do truly help the angels as they try to save mankind.Getting back to gratitude, I'm glad that Stevens wrote the way he did, that he was the way he was. I'm glad he insisted on his singular path, this shy, honest, loving being. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/28770393-wallace-stevens-words-chosen-out-of-desire](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/28770393-wallace-stevens-words-chosen-out-of-desire) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-05-22*