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"No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons." Harold Bloom"No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons." Harold BloomHide synopsis
Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company) – Hardcover (2005)
by
A R Ammons
Hardcover, W. W. Norton & Company 2005
English
96 pages
ISBN: 0393059529 ISBN-13: 9780393059526
"BOSH AND FLAPDOODLE is A. R. Ammons's last completed collection of poetry. Written over a six-week period, the book offers a series of candid, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking ruminations on age, illness, and death, while still finding room for the poet's always penetrating observations of daily life and natural events."BOSH AND FLAPDOODLE is A. R. Ammons's last completed collection of poetry. Written over a six-week period, the book offers a series of candid, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking ruminations on age, illness, and death, while still finding room for the poet's always penetrating observations of daily life and natural events.Hide
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Description:Very Good. 0393059529 Very Good Condition. May have light shelf...Very Good. 0393059529 Very Good Condition. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage. Has a small black line on bottom/exterior edge of pages.
Description:Like New. 2005. Small publisher's mark on bottom of text block....Like New. 2005. Small publisher's mark on bottom of text block. Otherwise, Fine.
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Description:Dust Jacket Design By Amy C. King; Dust Jacket Photograph By...Dust Jacket Design By Amy C. King; Dust Jacket Photograph By Oote Boe/Nonstock' Book Design By Blue Shoe Studio. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First printing of the Norton hardcover edition. 160pp. Green faux quarter-cloth, cream paper boards, gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket price 22.95. Book and dust jacket are in as new, unread condition. No remainder markings. "'Bosh and Flapdoodle' is A. R. Ammons's last completed collection of poetry. Written over a six-week period, the book offers a series of candid, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking ruminations on age, illness, and death, while still finding room for the poet's always penetrating observations of daily life and natural events. "-dust jacket front flap. "No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons. "-Harold Bloom. "By the time of his death in 2001, Ammons had won almost every award a poet can win. A National Book Award, a Pulitzer and a MacArthur "genius" grant (among others) honored his folksy yet intellectually rewarding verse, from sprawling, apparently improvised, philosophically rich book-length poems (Garbage; Sphere) to compact collections of witty and elegant lyric (A Coast of Trees; The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons). Begun in 1996 and clearly intended as a unified book, this posthumous gathering splits the difference between Ammons's short and long modes, and retains the virtues of both. Individual poems (each two pages in length) in unrhymed couplets address individual topics (bodily functions; "tree-limbs down" in a storm; A.E. Housman; "leaves from/ the maple by the driveway"; money; a "bathroom window open an inch") then add up to a sadder-but-wiser, resigned-yet-cheerful sequence about old age. Raised in North Carolina, Ammons taught for decades at Cornell in upstate New York: both the Southern twang of his origins and the snowdrifts of his adopted home inform these affecting if sometimes meandering ruminations. As usual, Ammons keeps comic effects close at hand: one poem begins by confusing songs from Wales with whales' songs. And, as usual, Ammons's offhanded manner permits...
Binding: Hardcover in green/ivory boards, in green illus jacket.
Publisher: Norton,
Description:New/New. Prize-winning poet's last work. Mint copy of HB 1st. 5...New/New. Prize-winning poet's last work. Mint copy of HB 1st. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2, 159 pp.
