Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues by A. R. Ammons

By A. R. Ammons

Set in Motion collects for the 1st time the prose writings of A. R. Ammons, considered one of our most crucial and enduring modern poets. Hailed as a massive strength in American poetry by way of such redoubtable critics as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler, Ammons has mirrored upon the affects of luminaries like Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Frost, Stevens, and Williams whereas making a compelling sort and an inventive imaginative and prescient uniquely his own.

Set in movement includes essays, studies, and interviews in addition to a range of Ammons's poems, with statement from the writer approximately their thought and results. he's taking up the questions which were critical to American poetry during the last 40 years and connects them to the bigger company of residing in a tricky, altering global. At a second whilst the humanities are lower than assault, Ammons reminds us of the an important position poetry performs in instructing us to acknowledge and use assets of realizing which are irreducible to statement.

A. R. Ammons is the writer of Sphere, A Coast of timber, and Garbage and was once lately the editor of The most sensible American Poetry 1994. His awards contain the MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, the Bollingen Prize, nationwide publication Awards, and prizes from the yank Academy of Arts and Letters and the nationwide booklet Critics Circle. he's Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry, Cornell University.

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By A. R. Ammons

Set in Motion collects for the 1st time the prose writings of A. R. Ammons, considered one of our most crucial and enduring modern poets. Hailed as a massive strength in American poetry by way of such redoubtable critics as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler, Ammons has mirrored upon the affects of luminaries like Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Frost, Stevens, and Williams whereas making a compelling sort and an inventive imaginative and prescient uniquely his own.

Set in movement includes essays, studies, and interviews in addition to a range of Ammons's poems, with statement from the writer approximately their thought and results. he's taking up the questions which were critical to American poetry during the last 40 years and connects them to the bigger company of residing in a tricky, altering global. At a second whilst the humanities are lower than assault, Ammons reminds us of the an important position poetry performs in instructing us to acknowledge and use assets of realizing which are irreducible to statement.

A. R. Ammons is the writer of Sphere, A Coast of timber, and Garbage and was once lately the editor of The most sensible American Poetry 1994. His awards contain the MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, the Bollingen Prize, nationwide publication Awards, and prizes from the yank Academy of Arts and Letters and the nationwide booklet Critics Circle. he's Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry, Cornell University.

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So, yes, I really think I've covered the gamut about revision all the way from hardly any ... You know, I have in some of my work tested the possibility of writing spontaneously-getting it "right" the first time-in the long essay poems and in The Snow Poems, and earlier in the Tape for the Turn of the Year way back in 1963 I tested my ability to say it right the first time in a long poem. And you know that that is an exaggerated test to place on oneself, but if it does come right somehow it has a ...

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