Background
Stevens, Holly was born on August 10, 1924 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Stevens's famous criterion for poetry—"It should give pleasure"—informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer fascinating glimpses of Stevens as family man, insurance executive, connoisseur, and friend. FROM THE BOOK:"Next to the passion flower I love fuchsias, and no kidding. . . . Down among the Pennsylvania Germans there was a race of young men . . . who carved willow fans. These men would take a bit of willow stick about a foot long, peel it and with nothing more than a jackknife carve it into something that looked like a souvenir of Queen Anne's lingerie. The trouble that someone took to invent fuchsias makes me think of these willow fans. However it is a dark and dreary day today and who am I to be frivolous under such circumstances."—from a letter to Wilson Taylor, August 20, 1947
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Stevens, Holly was born on August 10, 1924 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
Student, Vassar College, 1942. Student, University Connecticut, 1953.
Fire underwriter Aetna Life Affiliated Companies, Hartford, 1942-1946. Purchasing assistant Trinity College, 1955-1964. Secretary Yale University, 1966-1968.
Advertising manager Yale Review, 1968-1969, business manager, 1969-1977. Consultant Connecticut Public Radio, 1979. Founder, director New England Poetry Circuit, 1963-1968, Connecticut Poetry Circuit, 1968-1972, member selection committee, from 1972.
Founding member Poetry Center Trinity College.
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Board directors New Haven Symphony Orchestra, 1975-1985, assistant secretary, 1980-1983. Member of Elizabethan, Mory's (Yale).
Daughter of Wallace and Elsie Viola (Kachel) S. M. John Martin Hanchak, August 5, 1944 (divorced September 1951). 1 son, Peter Reed Hanchak.
M. Duncan Stephenson, August 24, 1957 (divorced December 1965).