Sentences with phrase «whole harmonium»

The gentleman gazing intently at us from the jacket photo of The Whole Harmonium, Paul Mariani's illuminating biography of Wallace Stevens, could be any successful businessman in midcentury America — a confident, well - fed mandarin.

The Whole Harmonium tells the story of a man descended from the withering traditions of mainline Protestantism and seeking a replacement for lost belief.

The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevensby paul marianisimon & schuster, 496 pages, $ 30 It was the first great American poem of modern atheism.

Like most of these works, The Whole Harmonium offers a restrained narrative that cleaves closely to documentary evidence and ventures little by way of either critical interpretation or unifying assessment.

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In a sense, the harmonium is an apt metonym for Alvarado's work as a whole, which combines layers of frames, layers of meaning, layers of media, and always in a meditative way.