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Excerpt from
Fall fell: so that's it for the leaf poetry:
some flurries have whitened the edges of roads
and lawns: time for that, the snow stuff: &
turkeys and old St. Nick: where am I going to
find something to write about I haven't already
written away: I will have to stop short, look
down, look up, look close, think, think, think:
but in what range should I think: should I...
A. R. Ammons at The Academy of American Poets
Marist Digital Library: A.R. Ammons links
David Lehman on Ammons:
Archie likes saying that his great motivation in poetry is anxiety, ferocious anxiety that "tries to get rid of everything thick and material--to arrive at a spiritual emptiness, the emptiness that is spiritual."
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