Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens and Jose
Rodriguez Feo, edited by Beverly Coyle and Alan Filreis
Duke University Press, 1986
EXCERPT
Three letters of 1945
Rodriguez
Feo to Stevens, October 9, 1945: "I tend my garden and feed the
chickens and the Negro takes care of my lovely black and white cow,
Lucera, and the mule, Pompilio."
Stevens to Rodriguez-Feo, October 17,
1945:
"The truth is that I have been thinking a bit about the
position of the ignorant man in what, for convenience, may be called
society and thinking about it from this
point of view: that we have made too much of everything in the world and
that perhaps the only really happy
man, or the only man with any wide range of possible happiness, is the
ignorant man."
Rodriguez-Feo to Stevens, October 20,
1945:
"But remember that thinking is a difficult process and I did much rather
look at
Pompilio eating his oats or just converse with Evaristo, a blond
guajiro who comes to bring the groceries."
