A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry

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Tranquility, where fuck are you?

I'm still here.  I needed (and probably still need) some time away from the forum.  I've been lurking, reading the new posts regularly, at least the ones outside the Sewer.  

I enjoyed the Harold Bloom interview.  Everything I know about him, I've learned from the forum, never having read him.  I don't read much literary criticism.  In fact, I could probably count on one hand the ones I have read with enthusiasm.

I'd like to meet the historical Jesus.  I have no desire to talk to God and I liked Bloom's description of Yahweh as a here today, gone tomorrow entity.  Isn't that sort of what the Gnostics were saying?   

Bloom does sound like a very interesting (and condescending) person, so maybe I should pick out one of his books to read.....but not anything about Shakespeare please.

Once, in New Mexico, I tried to read the Old Testament, but only got as far as Deuteronomy.  After listening to Bloom, I think I'll re-read the Gospel of Mark.  When I finish what I'm reading now, a Ross MacDonald novel.  I use RM to clear my head after too much of a particular author, in this case, after reading seven Hesse novels.

If and when I read poetry again, I'm going to take up the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, which I own thanks to you.  Maybe it will re-ignite the desire to write again, which has recently been nonexistent.

So it goes.