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"Fasting," A. R. Ammons
Robert Morgan: "The poem "Fasting" enacts a number of figures and discoveries we have seen before in Ammons's best poems. It is both parody and parable..." Commentary
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"Red Edges," A. R. Ammons
Alice Fulton: "'Red Edges,'" a road trip to "the big unifier," was written on adding machine tape. Roger Gilbert tells me that the manuscript actually is edged in red..." Commentary
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"Other News," A. R. Ammons
Roger Gilbert: "As I listened, the poem imperceptibly modulated in tone from peevish to plangent, and by the time it was over I found I wasn't breathing." Commentary
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Epoch
Guest Editor: Roger Gilbert
Managing Editor: Heidi E. Marschner
Editor: Michael Koch
This Is Just a Place: The Life and Work of A. R. Ammons (Volume 52, Number 3) is a special issue which includes thirty new poems by Ammons, together with comments on them by many distinguished poets and critics; unpublished prose writings from all phases of the poet's career, including journals, letters, essays, and stories; a portfolio of Ammons's watercolors; and reminiscences by
friends and students. The issue can be purchased by sending $12.95 (first class postage paid) to: Epoch, 251 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853
Copyright © 2004 by EPOCH
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission.
"Fasting" is included in Bosh And Flapdoodle, to be published by W.W. Norton & Company in March 2005.
Other A. R. Ammons collections from Norton include:
The Selected Poems — Paperback
A Coast of Trees — Paperback
Garbage: A Poem — Paperback
Collected Poems 1951-1971 — Paperback
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