interconnectedness

So I am now doing a taught Masters in English through the OU and loving it! Antigone and intertextuality , translation and diaspora here we come! But in my journey I am coming across such interesting connections and here is one I want to capture. In studying what Paz has to say about translation he illustrates with a poet whose  inherent experiences  bleed into the new text - he cites Wallace Stevens and his lines of poetry resonated with me immediately, Then I was looking at Twitter as is my wont at the moment and I followed a link to Christopher Reid, ex editor of Faber and Faber who has a new book coming out in February, In an article about him, his old tutor at Oxford said that he learned about Wallace Stevens from the young undergraduate Reid. Here is Reid's description of poets like Stevens - " they write about reality but in slightly fantasised and disguised terms. There was a metaphorical and allegorical inventiveness in them "
It is strange how someone else's words come to you just when you are seeking them - that is how I would describe my style and indeed I wish I had had them in my pocket when I was asked at the Poetry Library fair what kind of poetry I write! Fascinating connections!