Brink road : poems
Title:
Brink road : poems
JLCTITLE245:
A.R. Ammons.
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Norton, ©1996.
Physical Description:
xvi, 230 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780393039580
9780393315974
Abstract:
With characteristic economy, A.R. Ammons writes that "Brink Road lies off NY 96 between Candor and Catatonk." This upstate stretch of road provides the title for his new collection, its very name suggesting the sense, found in many of these poems, that we are ever in transition from one state of mind or feeling to another, and always on the edge of revelation. The more than 150 poems in Brink Road date from 1973 to the present and none has previously appeared in book form. They deal with Ammons's lifelong concerns with language, mortality, and the beauties and impersonal forces underlying the natural world with the elegance, wit, and ruminative gravity that are his signature qualities as a poet. The concluding work, "Summer Place, " is a long poem that demonstrates his mastery of this form as it unfolds the quotidian events of the poet's summer vacation.
Reading Level:
1260 L Lexile
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Contents:
Sense of now -- Picking up equations -- Enameling -- Up-country -- Sparklings -- Cool intimacies -- Fascicle -- Loving people -- Standing light up -- Establishment -- Broad brush -- First cold -- Regards regardless -- Time rate of change -- Greeting verses -- Mind stone -- Downing lines -- Whitewater -- Erminois -- Construing deconstruction -- Elite Street -- Good morning, this morning -- Walking song -- Sentiment -- Anxiety's prosody -- Land of the knobble-jobble tree -- Capabilities -- Minutial impress -- Showups -- Modes against too much -- Sky rides -- Heights known -- Conservationist -- Little thing like that -- Getting about -- December starlings -- Strings -- Winding up -- Middling seasons -- Looking way off -- Obsession -- Anger tangle -- Deep slow -- Saying saying away -- Line drawings -- Prey -- Very high condition -- Category of last resort -- Clenched-jaw school -- Ceppagna -- Pit lines -- Silvering shadow -- Abscission -- Microinscriptions -- Readings by ways -- Abandon -- Local antiquities -- Changing stations -- Collapsed structures -- Flat rock -- Flurries -- Deep end -- Reasoning power -- Tenacities -- Blues in the valley -- Packaging -- Serpent country -- Early stones -- Connecting misses -- Evasive actions -- Tenure's pleasures -- Pressing on -- Story -- Period -- Way of one's desire -- Hurricane -- Crystal tree -- Pretty looking sight -- Focus -- God is the sense the world makes without God -- Painlessness, to pain, is paradise -- Flaws in dominance -- How things go wrong -- Eternity's taciturnity -- Killing stuff off -- Boon -- Downstream -- Ruin's the palace of commencement -- Holding heights -- Walking about in the evening -- Museums -- Second-rate perfection -- Planet that was there -- Terebene scene -- Rain gauges -- Safe -- Reading Ta'o Chien -- Geezerly -- Improvisation for soot and suet -- Improvisation for the killers of meat -- Reckless endangerment -- Swimming night -- Ontology precedes teleology -- Disclaimer -- Spike-tooth harrows -- Picking where out of when -- Odysseus for Eva Maria Rodtwitt -- High desiring -- Damned -- What was that again -- Prisons there and not -- Moving fingers -- All's all -- Hard and fast -- So long, Descartes -- Marginals -- Day ghosts -- Next to nothing -- For my beloved son -- Outlines of absence -- Same old story -- Beautiful woman -- Cognoscenti -- Continuity -- Gung ho -- Appendix -- Stand-in -- Magic -- Rarities -- Old geezer -- Financial services -- Grove's way -- Rolling reality -- Thresher -- Putting on airs -- Superstars -- Standing on the corner watching all the wheels go by -- Home place -- Postmodernist views -- Expropriations -- Nitty gritty -- Enfield Falls -- Many ways not supreme -- Sojourning -- Death and silhouettes -- Fall's end -- Part for the whole -- Lofty calling -- Weightlessness -- Rosy transients -- Incomplete life -- Chosen roads -- Summer place.