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A. R. Ammons

Poetry

Winter 1998

Mouvance

By A. R. Ammons

Hilarity and sour scorn typify my reactions to passions of the moment: I mean, seeing people expend themselves into fugitive extremes, it speaks poorly of the power of the mind […]

Poetry

Winter 1998

Rogue Elephant

By A. R. Ammons

The reason to be autonomous is to stand there, a cleared instrument, ready to act, to search the moral realm and actual conditions for what needs to be done and […]