Wallace Stevens på kontoret

Stevens published \"Harmonium\", his first book and one of the most important collections of 20th-century verse, when he was 44. He went on to win two National Book Awards, a Bollingen and the Pulitzer, yet when he died, his office colleagues were surprised to learn that he had been anything but an insurance executive. \"It gives a man character as a poet to have this daily contact with a job,\" he once said in a newspaper interview.