Tape for the Turn of the Year (Paperback, Revised)

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 poems'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.

"This, the most surprising formal invention of a major innovator, is the fullest vision Ammons gives 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

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1995
First published:	November 1965
Authors:	A.R. Ammons
Dimensions:	211 x 142 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	220
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-31204-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-393-31204-6
Barcode:	9780393312041

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