The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Book

In my life no poet has meant more to me than Wallace Stevens. It took years of blinking incomprehension before I really found an entry point (actually, I highly recommend the wikipedia page for Harmonium, a great introduction). He doesn't make things too easy, and yet once he opens up to you you can practically make your home inside his oeuvre. An immensely generous poet, Stevens teaches you how to be alone, a lesson it's necessary to learn and re-learn your whole life.

From "Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction":

As if the waves at last were never broken
As if the language suddenly, with ease,
Said things it had laboriously spoken.