Wallace Stevens' late poetry is charged with quantum reality: fragmented, expansive, and always drawn toward the hope of a unified field. In this poem, "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm," Stevens details the ultimate reading experience--in which the reader becomes the book, the book becomes the world, and the reader is still left wanting the perfect reading experience. Join Mark Scarbrough as he explores this deceptively simple poem in which desire is the trouble with and cause of all.