We must author a new religious fiction more believable than the old, Stevens holds.
I’ve been reading Stevens for well over half a century. He is one of my favorite poets. Reading the Collected Poems many years ago it struck me that Stevens was engaged over the years in a search for faith — a living faith, not a religious fiction. He was known to visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral during his trips to New York City and just sit there meditating. I believe the story of his deathbed reception into the Catholic Church. It seems perfectly logical to me.
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