Tape for the Turn of the Year

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Innovative journal-poem adapting to outside medium.

As a unique experimental form of poetry, readers looking to expand their literary experience would enjoy this witty, serious, lyrical, and meditative piece. Ammons' Tape for the Turn of the Year is simultaneously entertaining and significant, rich in the resources of one of the greatest poets of this century.

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Tape for the Turn of the Year

Regular price ₱193.05
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Compare to estimated retail price: ₱2,284.65 PHP  
ISBN: 9780393312041
Authors: A.R. Ammons
Date of Publication: 1965-11-17
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Poetry, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Literary Criticism
Goodreads rating: 4.19
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“This is the most surprising formal invention of a major innovator, is the fullest vision Ammons gives us of his enormous creative enterprise. Among the major descendents of Whitman’s Song of Myself , Tape occupies an essential imaginative space, showing us much about what is essential in the American poetic imagination.” ―Harold Bloom In the form of a journal covering the period December 6, 1963, through January 10, 1964, A. R. Ammons’s long, thin poem was written on a roll of adding-machine tape, then transferred foot by foot to manuscript. He chose this method as a serious experiment in making a poem adapt to something outside itself. The tape determined both the length of the poem’s lines and when it ends. Tape for the Turn of the Year is a poem of infinite variety, blessed by the rich resources of one of this century’s greatest poets. By turns witty, serious, lyrical, and meditative, it is at once a superbly entertaining book and a significant literary achievement.
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Innovative journal-poem adapting to outside medium.

As a unique experimental form of poetry, readers looking to expand their literary experience would enjoy this witty, serious, lyrical, and meditative piece. Ammons' Tape for the Turn of the Year is simultaneously entertaining and significant, rich in the resources of one of the greatest poets of this century.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.