What The Thunder Said by Jed Rasula prize All the great

All the great

in Wallace Stevens’s memorable formulation

lightly worn… So original that it has sometimes scared off critical scrutineers

through pop and art rock

Gertrude Stein

What The Thunder Said by Jed Rasula prize All the greatWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty four year old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. But, as Jed Rasula writes, The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a before and after. It was a poem that unequivocally declared that the ancient art of poetry had become modern. In What the Thunder Said, Rasula tells the story