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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393059526
ISBN: 0393059529
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2005-03-30
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company

"No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."—Harold Bloom

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.

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: One punctuation mark (:) fits all
Review: Recurring themes: the indignity of old age and disease, the meaning of life, the act of writing poetry, long-married life. Sometimes humorous; sometimes punny; sometimes over-reaching and demanding and more work than I'm willing to do. Ammons called this "prosetry," not poetry: Not completely accurate.

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