"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" by Wallace Stevens (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

SpokenVerse · 59K views · 2008 · 1:03

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A spoken-word performance of Wallace Stevens' modernist poem, capturing its enigmatic tone and themes of mortality and celebration.

Linked by 3 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including blubrry.com, litcharts.com, edutarian.com.