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The Complete Poems of A R Ammons, Volume 2

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by A. R. Ammons


  “Finishing Up,” xxxii, xxxviii

  “Fire Going,” 812

  “First Cold,” 315

  “Flat Rock,” 353

  “Flaws in Dominance,” 370

  “Flurries,” 354

  “Focal Lengths,” 696

  “Focus,” 368

  “Following Tragedy,” 857

  “For Andrew Wyeth,” 783

  “For Edwin Wilson,” 885

  “For Emily Wilson,” 886

  “For Emily Wilson from a Newcomer,” 859

  “Forerunners,” 839

  “Foreshortening,” 679

  “For My Beloved Son,” 400

  “For Robert Penn Warren,” 801

  “Fourth Dimension,” 24

  “Free One, Get One By,” 719

  “Frost’s Foretellings,” 146

  “Frumpy Cronies,” 938

  Fucking Right, 673

  “Fucking Right,” 673

  “Fuel to the Fire, Ice to the Floe,” 694

  Garbage, xxxii, xlii, xliii, xlviii, 220

  “Gathering, The,” 815

  “Geezerly,” 381

  “Generally Clear with Scattered Slippery Spots,” 842

  “Genetic Counseling,” 699

  “Get Over It,” 691

  “Getting About,” 333

  “Getting It on Straight,” 676

  “Getting Through,” 10

  “Givings,” 30

  “Giving Up Words with Words,” 77

  “Glacials,” 192

  Glare, xxxii, xxxix, xlviii, 464

  “Glass Specialty,” 198

  “God Is the Sense the World Makes Without God,” 369

  “Going Without Saying,” 55

  “Good as Done,” 919

  “Good God,” 697

  “Good Morning, This Morning,” 322

  “Grave Is, The,” 802

  “Greeting Verses,” 317

  “Grisly Grit,” 211

  “Grove’s Way,” 207

  “Gung Ho,” 404

  “Gushworks, The,” 726

  “Hairy Belly,” 158

  “Hard and Fast,” 395

  “Harry Caplan,” 856

  “Heights Known,” 330

  “Helping Hand,” 89

  “Hermit Lark,” 46

  “High Desiring,” 388

  Highgate Road, xxxi

  “High Heaven,” 888

  “Holding Heights,” 375

  “Holding Still,” 68

  “Holding Sway,” 166

  “Hollows,” 54

  “Home Fires,” 740

  “Home Place,” 411

  “Hooliganism,” 700

  “How Things Go Wrong,” 371

  “Hubbub, The,” 168

  “Hurricane,” 365

  “Hymn,” 771

  “Hype,” 189

  “I Could Not Be Here At All,” 65

  “Immoderation,” 37

  “Immortality,” 51

  “Improvisation for Angular Momentum, An,” 853

  “Improvisation for Fran Bullis, An,” 806

  “Improvisation for Goldwin Smith, An,” 799

  “Improvisation for Jerald Bullis, An,” 32

  “Improvisation for Soot and Suet, An,” 382

  “Improvisation for the Killers of Meat, An,” 382

  “Improvisation for the Pieties of Modernism, An,” 854

  “Improvisation for the Stately Dwelling, An,” 31

  “Inclinations,” 824

  “Incomplete Life, The,” 422

  “Information Density,” 154

  “Informing Dynamics,” 705

  “In Memoriam Mae Noblitt,” 6

  “Instancing,” 73

  “Interim,” 794

  “In View of the Fact,” 689

  “Is the Only Enough None,” 76

  “It Doesn’t Hold Water,” 759

  “It Is As Far,” 770

  “I Went Back,” 38

  “I Wouldn’t Go So Far As to Say That,” 763

  “John Henry,” 709

  “Keeping Track,” 866

  “Keepsake,” 19

  “Killing Stuff Off,” 373

  “Kingpin,” 216

  “Kith,” 216

  “Laboratory Materials,” 152

  “Laces,” 79

  Lake Effect Country, 59

  “Land of the Knobble-Jobble Tree, The,” 325

  “Late Look,” 207

  “Late November,” 205

  “Late Scene,” 917

  “Layabout,” 217

  “Leaning Up,” 206

  “Likely Story,” 214

  “Limits,” 49

  “Lineage,” 747

  “Line Drawings,” 341

  “Lips Twisted with Thirst,” 83

  “Liquidities,” 177

  “Little Thing Like That, A,” 331

  “Local Antiquities,” 351

  “Localizing,” 61

  “Loft,” 149

  “Lofty Calling,” 420

  “Long Sorrowing,” 172

  “Looking Way Off,” 337

  “Lost and Found,” 219

  “Lost & Found,” 41

  “Love’s Motions,” 88

  “Loving People,” 312

  “Magic,” 405

  “Making Fields,” 887

  “Making Room,” 82

  “Man’s Nature,” 802

  “Many Ways Not Supreme, The,” 415

  “Maple,” 814

  “Marble,” 812

  “Marginals,” 397

  “Market Adviser,” 214

  “Marking Time,” 821

  “Measuring Points,” 94

  “Meditation,” 51

  “Meeting Place,” 96

  “Memory,” 185

  “Merchandise,” 56

  “Microinscriptions,” 348

  “Middling Seasons,” 336

  “Mid-Morning,” 788

  “Milepost,” 215

  “Mina de Oro,” 736

  “Mind Stone,” 318

  “Minutial Impress,” 327

  “Modes Against Too Much,” 328

  “Motioning,” 87

  “MotionShape,” 889

  “Motions’ Holdings,” 146

  “Motion’s Holdings,” 179

  “Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything,” 838

  “Mountain Wind,” 23

  “Mouvance,” 711

  “Moving Figures,” 393

  “Mucilage,” 869

  “Mule,” 884

  “Museums,” 376

  “Nature Poetry,” 67

  “Nearing Equinox,” 208

  “Necessity,” 788

  “Negative Pluses,” 78

  “Negative Symbiosis,” 187

  “Negligence These Days,” 209

  “Neighbors,” 18

  “Next to Nothing,” 399

  “Night Chill,” 40

  “Night Finding,” 24

  “Night Post,” 206

  “Nitty Gritty,” 413

  “Noted Imposition,” 822

  “Now Then,” 748

  “Oblivion’s Bloom,” 51

  “Obsession,” 337

  “Odd Man Out,” 708

  “Odysseus for Eva Maria Rodtwitt,” 387

  “Oil Ode,” 687

  “Old Desire,” 81

  “Old Geezer,” 406

  “Old Sweet,” 675

  Ommateum with Doxology, xxxi, xxxviii, xli, xliii, xliv

  “On Being,” 71

  “One Extreme to the Other,” 813

  “Only Way Around Is Through, The,” 80

  “Ontology Precedes Teleology,” 384

  “Oops,” 856

  “Opinion’s Pinions,” 858

  “Orchard,” 218

  “Other News,” 935

  “Outdoor Plumbing,” 679

  “Out from Under,” 754

  “Outlines of Absence,” 401

  “Over an
d Done With,” 190

  “Packaging,” 358

  “Painlessness, to Pain, Is Paradise,” 369

  “Pairing,” 57

  “Part for the Whole, A,” 418

  “Parting,” 28

  “Pebble’s Story,” 205

  “Pedagogy Agog,” 199

  “Period,” 363

  “Periodontal Abscess,” 878

  “Permanence,” 218

  “Persistences,” 33

  “Pet Panther,” 85

  “Picking Up Equations,” 308

  “Picking Where Out of When,” 387

  “Pileup,” 864

  “Ping Jockeys,” 865

  “Pit Lines,” 346

  “Plain Divisions,” 818

  “Planet Actions,” 200

  “Planet That Was There, The,” 377

  “Playback,” 70

  “Poetry to the Rescue,” 204

  “Positive Edges,” 70

  “Postmodernist Views,” 412

  “Postulation,” 163

  “Pots and Pans,” 174

  “Poverty,” 29

  “Power Plays,” 161

  “Precious Weak Fields,” 39

  “Preexistence,” 218

  “Pressing On,” 362

  “Pretty Looking Sight, A,” 367

  “Prey,” 342

  “Prisons There and Not,” 391

  “Progress Report,” 41

  “Providence,” 55

  “Pudding Bush Sopping Wet,” 741

  “Putting on Airs,” 408

  “Pyroclastic Flows,” 706

  “Quanta,” 942

  “Questionable Procedures,” 146

  “Quibbling the Colossal,” 703

  “Quick Song,” 814

  “Quit That,” 213

  “Rain Gauges,” 379

  “Rainy Morning,” 50

  “Range,” 22

  “Rapids,” 18

  “Rap Sheet,” 937

  “Rarities,” 406

  “Rattling Freight Lines,” 756

  “Reaction Rates,” 40

  “Readings by Ways,” 349

  “Reading Ta’o Chien,” 380

  Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons, The, xxxii, 189

  “Reasoning Power,” 356

  “Reckless Endangerment,” 383

  “Recoveries,” 182

  “Red Edges,” 890

  “Red Shift,” 170

  “Regards Regardless,” 315

  “Regular Mess, A,” 882

  “Religious Feeling,” 922

  “Religious Matters,” 852

  “Remembering Old Caves,” 165

  “Reorganization,” 218

  “Resolve,” 217

  “Response,” 13

  “Resurrections,” 212

  “Reticulum of Indirection,” 824

  “Retiring,” 66

  “Reverse Reverse and You Have Reverse,” 681

  “Right Call,” 922

  “Righting Wrongs,” 36

  “Ringadingding,” 761

  “Rivulose,” 57

  “Rogue Elephant,” 710

  “Role of Society in the Artist, The,” 43

  “Rolling Reality,” 407

  “Room Conditioner,” 35

  “Rosalie,” 841

  “Rosy Transients,” 421

  “Rough Estimate,” 674

  “Roundel,” 203

  “Ruin’s the Palace of Commencement,” 374

  “Run Ragged,” 941

  “Safe,” 380

  “Sale Sale, The,” 860

  “Salute,” 210

  “Same Old Story,” 402

  “Saving Account,” 843

  “Saving Spending,” 171

  “Saying Saying Away,” 340

  “Scaling Desire,” 150

  “Scarecrow,” 195

  “Scat Scan,” 593

  “Scientific Breakdown,” 789

  “Scour, The,” 50

  “Scribbles,” 45

  “Second Party,” 191

  “Second-Rate Perfection,” 377

  “Section,” 94

  Selected Longer Poems, xxxii, xxxiii

  Selected Poems, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxviii

  “Self,” 792

  “Sense of Now, A,” 307

  “Sentiment,” 324

  “Serpent Country,” 359

  “Settlement,” 194

  “Settlements,” 849

  “Settling Up,” 77

  “Shading Flight In,” 39

  “Shit Face,” 750

  “Shit List; or, Omnium-Gatherum of Diversity into Unity,” 47

  “Shot Glass,” 875

  “Showups,” 328

  “Shuffled Marbles,” 940

  “Sibley Hall,” 697

  “Sight Seed,” 186

  “Silvering Shadow,” 347

  “Singling & Doubling Together,” 86

  Six-Piece Suite, xxxi, 1

  “Sizing,” 50

  “Skimpy Side of Nothing, The,” 934

  “Sky Rides,” 329

  “Slacking Off,” 701

  “Slights of Sight,” 840

  “Slippery Log Swamp,” 772

  Snow Poems, The, xxxi, xxxviii, xlviii, l

  “Snow Roost,” 39

  “Sojourning,” 416

  “So Long, Descartes,” 396

  “Some Any,” 185

  “Somers Point,” 862

  “Songlet,” 75

  “Soul’s Seas,” 197

  “Sparklings,” 309

  “Speaking,” 918

  “Spew,” 742

  Sphere: The Form of a Motion, xxxii, xxxviii, xlviii

  “Spike-Tooth Harrows,” 386

  “Spills,” 879

  “Spiral Rag, The,” 63

  “Spiritual Progress,” 815

  “Spit,” 746

  “Spot Check” (1988), 844

  “Spot Check” (1997), 932

  “Spring Clearing,” 212

  “Spring Lines,” 814

  “Spring Tornado,” 202

  “Spring Vacation,” 95

  “Spruce Woods,” 38

  “Squall Ball,” 208

  “Squall Lines,” 709

  “Stand-In,” 405

  “Standing Light Up,” 313

  “Standing on the Corner Watching All the Wheels Go By,” 410

  “Still Frame,” 201

  “Stills,” 214

  “Stone Keep,” 154

  “Stoning Stone,” 193

  “Story, The,” 363

  “Strings,” 334

  “Strip,” 464

  “Strolls,” 9

  “Subsidiary Roles,” 163

  “Substantial Planes,” 193

  “Subsumption,” 36

  “Success Story,” 192

  “Sucking Flies,” 722

  “Suet Pudding, Spotted Dick,” 695

  Sumerian Vistas, 98

  “Sumerian Vistas,” 868

  “Summer Fashion,” 823

  “Summer Place,” 423

  “Sunday at McDonald’s,” 26

  “Sung Reassertions,” 777

  “Superstars,” 409

  “Surface Effects,” 683

  “Surfacing Surface Effects,” 718

  “Surgeons,” 178

  “Surprise of an Ending, The,” 846

  “Surprising Elements,” 753

  “Sweetened Change,” 27

  “Swells,” 4

  “Swimming Night,” 384

  “Swoggled,” 213

  “Tail Tales,” 692

  “Taking Place,” 819

  “Target,” 162

  “Teleology,” 209

  “Telling Moves,” 181

  “Tenacities,” 357

  “Tendency to Ascendancy, A,” 153

  “Tenure’s Pleasures,” 361

  “Terebene Scene,” 378

  “Tertiaries,” 151

  “That Day,” 203

  “That’s
What I Just Got Through Saying,” 758

  “Their Sex Life,” 216

  “Theories of Height,” 62

  “Theory Center,” 210

  “The Ridge Farm,” 98

  [They said today would be partly cloudy], 716

  “This,” 201

  “Thoroughfaring,” 813

  “Thoughts,” 745

  “Thresher,” 408

  “Thrown for a Loop,” 764

  “Time after Time,” 845

  “Time Being,” 851

  “Time Rate of Change, The,” 316

  “Time Spans,” 202

  “Tombstones,” 136

  “Tom Fool,” 760

  “Touching,” 199

  “Tracing Out,” 184

  “Transcending,” 811

  “Traveling Shows,” 21

  “Tree Limbs Down,” 724

  “Trigger,” 74

  “Trivial Means,” 183

  “Tryst,” 191

  “Turning Things Out Good,” 861

  “Twangs & Little Twists,” 206

  “20 January,” 147

  “Untelling,” 786

  “Up-Country,” 309

  “Upper Limits,” 151

  “Upshot, The,” 215

  “Urban Rage,” 781

  “Vehicle,” 12

  “Very High Condition,” 342

  “View,” 777

  “Vines,” 37

  “Volitions,” 54

  “Vomit,” 744

  “Waking,” 198

  “Walking About in the Evening,” 375

  “Walking Song,” 323

  “Way Away, A,” 174

  “Way Down Upon the Woodsy Roads,” 767

  “Way of One’s Desire, The,” 364

  “We, We Ourselves,” 93

  “Weather-Bound,” 8

  “Weathering,” 189

  “Weeding,” 677

  “Weightlessness,” 420

  “Wetter Beather,” 725

  “What Was That Again,” 390

  “Where,” 9

  “White Dwarf,” 17

  “White Echo,” 863

  “Whitelash of Air Rapids,” 205

  “White Passages,” 173

  “Whitewater,” 320

  “Whole Situation, The,” 755

  z“Widespread Implications,” 737

  “Winding Up,” 335

  “Windy Morning with a Little Sleet,” 69

  “Winter Crop,” 850

  “Winter Sanctuaries,” 53

  “Wiring,” 26

  “Woman,” 889

  “Working Differentials,” 53

  “Working Out,” 164

  “Work Notes,” 847

  “Worky Shallows,” 200

  Worldly Hopes, 35

  “Written Water,” 66

  “Wrong Road,” 766

  “Yadkin Picnic,” 79

  “Yonderwards,” 729

  “Zero and Then Some,” 60

  INDEX OF FIRST LINES

  “Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.”

  a bird dabbed me, a virgin soil, as I issued, 285

  A bit of, 42

  A bit of the universe’s, 146

  A bluejay’s the clarified, 12

  A circumcision is, 679

  A clarifying high, 395

 

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