Autobiographical Note -- Foreword to Ommateum -- A Note on Prosody -- A Note on Incongruence -- Note of Intent -- A Poem Is a Walk -- Surfaces -- Differences of Degree -- Taking Exception -- A Paragraph of Precedence -- Poetry Is Action -- "I Couldn't Wait to Say the Word" -- "The Unassimilable Fact Leads Us On ... ": Jim Stahl -- An Interview: William Walsh -- Perversity, Propaganda, and Poetry: Zofia Burr -- The Paris Review Interview: David Lehman -- Inside Out -- Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything -- On "Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything" -- Making Change -- Anxiety's Prosody -- On "Anxiety's Prosody" -- The Damned -- On "The Damned" -- On Garbage
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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