Tallapoosa

Tallapoosa, Georgia, is a small town in Haralson County and is referenced in Wallace Stevens' poem "Stars at Tallapoosa" (1923). We can assume that Stevens was aware of the small southern town because of his frequent travels on behalf of the Hartford Company or because of his trips to Florida with friends. Tallapoosa is the host of an annual celebration at New Years: the Possum Drop. [1]
Eleanor Cook states that the poem in the Harmonium collection provides an opportunity for the poet to engage in a "[play] on lines, including the imagined lines that link stars into constellations, . . . lines of poetry, Whitman's lines" (65). [2]
==Notes==
1. Tallapoosa
2. Cook 65.
==References==
Cook, Eleanor. A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. Print.
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