I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

The colon is an Ammons "signature"; he uses it "as an all-purpose punctuation mark. Corsons Inlet. Lehman has written that Ammons "bears out T.

He wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones.