Ommateum: With Doxology : PoemsThis reissue of A. R. Ammons's debut, published five decades ago in a rare edition, with its penetrating "Whitmanian chants . . . holds in it the mystery of his gradual development into a major American poet, who will be read by the most discerning until the last syllable of recorded time" (Harold Bloom). |
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... Dorrance and Company , a Philadel- phia vanity press . The title of the book was Ommateum , with Doxology - two obscure Latinate words yoked by a preposi- tion , the first a scientific name for the compound eye of an insect , the second ...
... Dorrance and Company , a Philadel- phia vanity press . The title of the book was Ommateum , with Doxology - two obscure Latinate words yoked by a preposi- tion , the first a scientific name for the compound eye of an insect , the second ...
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... Dorrance . I wish you would tell me whether or not you think there is any sense in the project and if a poet can be considered very worthwhile who publishes himself . Also , I would like to ask if you would be willing to accept the ...
... Dorrance . I wish you would tell me whether or not you think there is any sense in the project and if a poet can be considered very worthwhile who publishes himself . Also , I would like to ask if you would be willing to accept the ...
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