"Donald Blount, who has expertly arranged and introduced these letters, is surely right in that Wallace Stevens and his wife Elsie 'had a language and a world that we will never fully understand.' The writings in this book are, as Stevens put it in a poem to his beloved, 'like a glimpse of skies.' Yet, thanks to Blount, the formulations of their complex relationship—their devotions, tensions, shadings, angled sympathies—are rendered more distinct than ever before."—Alan Filreis