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I never read Ammons but I could read Ammons forever.

Date: 2013-08-01 12:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toctoc.livejournal.com
Just happened across what has to be one of the funniest misfilings of Garbage ever--this while hunting up a copy of Sphere , which I like very much, despite being faintly alarmed at the idea that anyone might learn how to be a sexual being from Ammons.

Date: 2013-08-01 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nightspore.livejournal.com
You know his one line poem "Middle aged sex"?

"One failure on top of another."

Date: 2013-08-01 12:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com
Yeah, I like his etymology-consciousness, but his puns are a not always fortunate byproduct. A lot of humor's generation-bound, I guess?

Date: 2013-08-01 03:03 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-08-01 09:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com
Glued to a trashcan?

I lose the thread in long Ammons but he's just as fascinating line by line.

Date: 2013-08-01 11:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toctoc.livejournal.com
Glued to a trashcan?

Very nearly. I think I'd have to take a picture; words don't do it justice.


Yes, his sense of what a line is & does is strong & singular (vague sense it's more in how he binds a concept or image within a line rather than anything to do with musicality, whatever that means)--it's one of the things I must like about him, you make me realize.

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