Poetry in the Poconos #3: "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was born in 1879 (in Reading, PA) and died in 1955. Stevens wrote poetry in the evenings, but made his living as businessman and lawyer. Perhaps Stevens might be best known for getting into a fight with Ernest Hemingway. Stevens broke his hand while punching Hemingway in the jaw, and Hemingway beat him up pretty badly. The sad fact is that Stevens started the whole thing. At a Key West party, Stevens took it upon himself to defame the character of the novelist