Set in Motion
Subtitle: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues (Poets on Poetry)
Contributors: Zofia Burr (Editor)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: February 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780472066032
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Poetry & poets; Poetry texts & anthologies; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects; Interviews; American - General; Poetry; Poetry / General; 20th century; General; 1926-; Ammons, A. R.,; Poets, American
Description: Set in Motion includes essays, reviews, and interviews as well as a selection of A. R. Ammons's poems, with commentary from the author about their inspiration and effects. He takes up the questions that have been central to American poetry over the last forty years and connects them to the larger enterprise of living in a difficult, changing world.

At a moment when the arts are under attack, Ammons reminds us of the crucial role poetry plays in teaching us to recognize and use sources of understanding that are irreducible to statement.