10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OMMATEUM»
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Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems
“Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry.”--John Ashbery
2
Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue
The reissue of his rare first book, Ommateum, with Doxology, completes the
barrel scraping that followed his death five years ago. Ammons was always an
oddball in American poetry, producing lyric reflections and rambling meditations
on ...
3
Everyday and Prophetic: The Poetry of Lowell, Ammons, ...
There were no "ideas" then: his motto in Ommateum could almost have been "no
ideas and no things." Ammons has imagined himself from the start as a figure
looking at a landscape and trying to speak about where he is. He still sees
himself ...
4
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science
670 he says: " Let us take for instance one of the lateral eyes of Scorpio aud it will
be found, according to Graber and Lankester, that the ommateum consists of
ommatidia each one composed of five central colourless cells or retinophorse.
5
Good Measure: Essays, Interviews, and Notes on Poetry
In "The Transfigured Body" and "Mica," Morgan presents excerpts from his own notebooks, meditations jotted down during the process of composing poems. These notes made in passing provide intriguing insights into the work of poetry.
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Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
(Compare Patten, '86, p. 544.) Resting on the deep face of the corneal cuticula is
the thick cellular layer, named by Lankester and Bourne the ommateum (omm1.).
The proximal face of the ommateum is limited by a basement membrane, which ...
matidia which have now begun to form in the ommateum (Fig. 6). A distinct row of
unipolar ganglion-cells appears about half way between the apex of the outer
medulla and the brain-sheath. Each cell is attached to a fibre by a minute stalk, ...
8
Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry
... "First Cold," 170; "Flurries," 170; "For Harold Bloom," 149—150; "Foreword to
Ommateum" 5; Garbage, 17-18, 145, 160, 166, 200, 206n3; Glare, 7, 9, 161-162,
166-167, 243-244; "Gravelly Run," 6, 150; "Hymn," 149; "An Interview with
William ...
Bonnie. COSTELLO, Bonnie Costello, 2009
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A.R. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope
54 What is especially intriguing about this early Ommateum poem, however, is
that the speaker is willing to move beyond the world of sense at all. In this poem,
at least, he does not seem to be especially troubled by his transcendental status.
Steven P. Schneider, 1994
The inner layer, or ommateum, consists of well-developed ommatidia. each one
composed of at least nine cells. The centre of each ornmatidium is occupied by
liver nnnpkora. each one bearing a flattened rod, broad at its outer extremity, and
...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OMMATEUM»
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ommateum is used in the context of the following news items.
Dorrance Publishing Company Celebrates 90 years
In 1955 Dorrance published a volume of poetry titled Ommateum by A. R. Ammons. This collection helped establish Ammons' career as he ... «PR Web, Mar 10»
Poetry and the Civil Tongue
Here, from “Our Savage Art,” is a taste of Logan on the warpath: “The only way Ammons could have improved 'Ommateum' would have been to ... «New York Times, Apr 09»
