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Not so much looking for the shape as being available to any shape that may be summoning itself through me from the self not mine but ours.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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I attended the burial of all my rosy feelings: I performed the rites, simple and decisive.
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A. R. Ammons
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Born:
February 18, 1926
Died:
February 25, 2001
(aged 75)
Bio:
Archie Randolph Ammons was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993.
Known for:
Tape for the turn of the year (1965)
A Coast of Trees (1981)
Ommateum: With Doxology (1955)
Sphere (1974)
The snow poems (1977)
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