Tape for the Turn of the Year
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:8th Feb '95
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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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.
ISBN: 9780393312041
Dimensions: 211mm x 142mm x 13mm
Weight: 286g
220 pages