Dana Gioia, in Executive Poets The Hudson Review (Spring 1983), 684 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Business and poetry may seem to mix like oil and water, but in America they blend surprisingly often. Despite the seeming contradiction, writes Gioia, a poet and General Foods executive, the nation's businessman-poets have profited from their dual identities.
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), vice president of a Hartford insurance firm and one of America's greatest poets, became the best-known hy- brid....