Per Brazeau, Wallace Stevens enjoyed using [N-word] *because it upset people*. Was he a "man of his time?" *Were the people he upset*?
@UOJim There's an appalling story that Stevens asked "Who let the coon in?" when Gwendolyn Brooks came to a poetry event.
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@HeerJeet Oy. Happily he keeps race out of all but one poem I know of. -
@UOJim Oh yeah, its not in the poetry mostly. - Show replies
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