Essays on Poets and Poetry by Helen Vendler

Essays on Poets and Poetry by Helen Vendler

Author:Helen Vendler [Vendler, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780674736566
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-10-10T19:42:37+00:00


Ammons plays on the etymology: “succinct” poetry is “cinctured”: “discinct” poetry is unbelted, unbuttoned, the “bosh and flapdoodle” of the human lexicon.

Ammons unveils—in a sad and tender recollection of the Christmas he was four—the presence of joy as the most precious index of time remembered:

I

remember an ancient Christmas morning with my

tin toy mule and milk wagon on the quilt:

I was four and that little thing tied a world

together: it was a miracle: but that is a

story too old to save.…

(138)



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