Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A. R. Ammons

by David Burak (Editor), Roger Gilbert (Editor)

Overview

“A. R. Ammons has exploded into the company of American poets that includes Whitman and Emerson and articulates the major impulse of the national expression: the paradox of poetry as process and yet impediment to process.”

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393059991
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/17/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	11
	Introduction	15
	"The Spent Seer Consigns Order to the Vehicle of Change" (1966)	21
	A. R. Ammons: "When You Consider the Radiance" (1971)	45
	In the American Grain (1973)	89
	Light, Wind, Motion (1973)	95
	The Talk of Giants (1973)	107
	Ammons's Radiant Toys (1973)	125
	The Humor of A. R. Ammons: The Clown and the Seer (1986)	150
	The Solitary Man: The Poetry of A. R. Ammons (1986)	160
	The Natural Philosopher Returns, Singing (1998)	173
	Archie's Heart (2001)	186
	The Titles: A. R. Ammons, 1926-2001 (2001)	213
	Archie's Sphere (2002)	233
	A. R. Ammons: Pilgrim, Sage, Ordinary Man (2002)	248
	Rereading Ammons's Long Poems (2003)	281
	A Gentle Luxury: Remembering A. R. Ammons (1986)	294
	In the Dumpsters of the Gods (2001)	311
	A Love Note: A. R. Ammons as Teacher (2001)	317
	The Whistle (2001)	323
	Balance and Contradiction: Remembering Archie (2001)	327
	Answering the Phone: A Reminiscence of A. R. Ammons (2002)	330
	Ammons Outside the Dragon (2003)	335
	The Missing Teacher: The Early Correspondence Between Josephine Miles and A. R. Ammons (2003)	343
	Notes on the Contributors	357
	Permissions	363