This intimate collection of essays addressed to the common reader pays tribute to one of the twentieth century s major poets. Encompassing every phase of A. R. Ammons s oeuvre, from his beginnings in the 1950s to his late masterpieces, Garbage and Glare, this book of essays explores the personal side of a poet often still seen as forbiddingly abstract and intellectual. Included are essays by Helen Vendler, Alice Fulton, Harold Bloom, and John Ashbery, among others."
This intimate collection of essays addressed to the common reader pays tribute to one of the twentieth century s major poets. Encompassing every phase...
In the twentieth century no form of experience has been more frequently taken up by poets eager to capture both the openness and fluidity of life and the aesthetic closure of an artwork than that of a walk. Examining the walk poem, Roger Gilbert contends that at its heart is the "desire to keep what we have lived." What is the appeal of the walk poem for modern American poets? According to Gilbert, it provides a ready-made frame within which to explore the full range of individual consciousness as it responds to and reflects on the world immediately at hand. The unstructured, plotless...
In the twentieth century no form of experience has been more frequently taken up by poets eager to capture both the openness and fluidity of life a...
