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Sign: New York - Library Walk -A verse from Wallace Stevens’ song "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

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19 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
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On the sign:
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”

[Gregg LeFevre Signature]
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The Library Walk, is a venture launched in 1996 by the New York Public Library, Grand Central Partnership and New Yorker Magazine, in which are embedded in bronze plaques quotes from well-known books, or those dealing with books and literature. The panels designed by artist Gregg LeFevre were laid in 1998 from the New York Public Library building along 41st Street.

On the plaque is the fifth verse of the poem by the American poet Wallace Stevens - 13 Ways to Look at Blackbird - a 13-sections song in which the bird appears in one form or another.

A path appears on the plaque with traces of a bird’s feet




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