In 1955, shortly before his death, Wallace Stevens earned the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Award for . The collection gathered most of his life’s work, and featured 25 previously unpublished poems. Stevens imagined that those poems would stand alone as their own volume— . Featuring some of his most memorable poems, including “Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself,” is a sublime selection of works from one of American’s most brilliant, beloved modernist. .” —Robert Fitzgerald .” —Randall Jarrell