Synopses & Reviews
Bosh and Flapdoodleis 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.
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"[A] vernacular American Ovid, an irreverent master of metamorphosis." Edward Hirsch
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"His poems, framed in ordinary language and couched in stately couplets, are twisty and testy, bawdy and funny." New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
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.
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"No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."--Harold Bloom
About the Author
A. R. Ammons's (1926-2001) honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award.