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Indian River is a poem from Wallace Stevens’s first book of poetry Harmonium. It was first published in 1917. Absent from the first edition of 1923 it appeared in the second edition of 1931. It is in the public domain.The linked prepositional phrases oblige the reader to construct complex visual images of the Floridian scenes and the focus on jingling in each sentence brings sound to the images as well.