Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A.R. AmmonsThis 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. |
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Contents
Preface David Burak | 11 |
Richard Howard The Spent Seer Consigns Order | 21 |
When | 45 |
John Ashbery In the American Grain 1973 | 89 |
Josephine Miles Light Wind Motion 1973 | 95 |
The Clown and the Seer 1986 | 150 |
A R Ammons 1986 | 160 |
Roald Hoffmann The Natural Philosopher | 173 |
James McConkey Rereading Ammonss | 281 |
Remembering | 294 |
David Burak In the Dumpsters of the Gods 2001 | 311 |
A R Ammons | 317 |
Ingrid Arnesen The Whistle 2001 | 323 |
A Reminiscence | 330 |
The Early Correspondence | 343 |
Notes on the Contributors | 357 |
A R Ammons 19262001 2001 | 213 |
David Lehman Archies Sphere 2002 | 233 |
Pilgrim Sage | 248 |
Permissions | 363 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons |
| Editors | David Burak, Roger Gilbert, Ingrid Arnesen |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0393059995, 9780393059991 |
| Length | 365 pages |
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