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Tape for the Turn of the Year

English · Paperback / Softback

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In the form of a journal covering the period December 6, 1963, through January 10, 1964, A. R. Ammons's long, thin poem was written on a roll of adding-machine tape, then transferred foot by foot to manuscript. He chose this method as a serious experiment in making a poem adapt to something outside itself. The tape determined both the length of the poem's lines and when it ends. Tape for the Turn of the Year is a poem of infinite variety, blessed by the rich resources of one of this century's greatest poets. By turns witty, serious, lyrical, and meditative, it is at once a superbly entertaining book and a significant literary achievement.


About the author

A. R. Ammons’s (1926–2001) was a two-time winner of the National Book Award and the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award. His many additional honors include the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.

Summary

This poem takes the form of a month-long journal, composed on a roll of adding machine tape.

Product details

Authors A. R. Ammons, Ammons A. R.
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 08.02.1995
 
EAN 9780393312041
ISBN 978-0-393-31204-1
Dimensions 142 mm x 211 mm x 13 mm
Weight 286 g
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama

POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets

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