A. R. Ammons's comic strip Glare: lit(t)erary musings about nothing.(Critical essay)

The Mississippi Quarterly | December 22, 2005| | Copyright 
 
   It is as if 
   Men turning into things, as comedy, 
   Stood, dressed in antic symbols, to display 
   The truth about themselves, having lost, as things, 
   That power to conceal they had as men.

--Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"

READERS HAVE TAKEN AND CONTINUE TO TAKE A. R. AMMONS SERIOUSLY as a major twentieth-century poet, approaching his work from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, such as the psychoanalytical, postmodern, scientific, theological, philosophical, cybernetic, and ecological. His name has been ...

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