The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry

At the same time as he discovers in Stevens a pragmatist philosopher of law, Grey offers new perspective on the poetry itself. In the poems that develop Stevens's "reality-imagination complex" - pieces often criticized as remote, a political, and hermetic - Grey finds a body of work that not only captures the reader but also provides a unique instrument for scrutinizing the thought processes of lawyers and judges in their exercise of social power.