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Glare - Hardcover

Ammons, A. R.

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9780393040968: Glare
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393040968 ISBN 13: 9780393040968
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Synopsis

"Glare is a high-energy, relentlessly self-aware collision with the whole of life."―Albert Mobilio, Salon

A superb long poem by the contemporary master of the form, Glare comprises two sections, "Strip" and "Scat Scan." The poem demonstrates, yet again, why A. R. Ammons's poetic voice is a national treasure: by turns cosmic, self-inflating, self-deflating, eloquent, intimate, bawdy, comic, precise―and always unmistakably his own.

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About the Author

A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), author of many books of poetry, won a Bollingen Prize; two National Book Awards; a National Book Critics Circle Award; a Library of Congress Prize for Poetry; a Wallace Stevens Award; and a Robert Frost Medal. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught at Cornell University.

Reviews

In his 1968 essay, "A Poem Is a Walk," Ammons described poetry as being able to incorporate "contradictions, inconsistencies, explanations." His long poems demonstrate that theory, leaving him room to be humanist, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, teacher, family man, and sexual being. Writing in his familiar couplets on another roll of adding-machine tape, he reminds readers of his last book-length poem, Garbage (1993 National Book Award winner). He wants "Strip" to be akin to litter, however, casually strewn everywhere: "I have plenty and/ give plenty away, why, because here/ at nearly 70 stuff has bunched up/ with who knows how much space to/ spread out into." Or, again: "strip typing is/ like strip mining: you peel the/ surface off things shoving clutterment/ downhill." "Scat Scan," the book's shorter poem, is harder to pin down. Again, Ammons is discursive, delighting in wordplay. He sums up his life through twisted proverbs and ingeniously echoes Frost's two most famous poems, "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." As with all of Ammons's books, this volume is essential.?Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0393040968
ISBN 13 
9780393040968
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304
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