{"id":115,"date":"2007-01-03T19:37:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T23:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=115"},"modified":"2007-01-03T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T23:37:47","slug":"ommateum-with-doxology-by-ar-ammonsww-norton-co-2006-originally-dorrance-and-company-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/ommateum-with-doxology-by-ar-ammonsww-norton-co-2006-originally-dorrance-and-company-1955\/","title":{"rendered":"Ommateum with Doxology by A.R. AmmonsW.W. Norton &#038; Co., 2006 (Originally Dorrance and Company, 1955)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The preface to this edition quotes from an interview that Ammons gave in 1995: these poems, Ammons says, &#8220;are sometimes very rigid and ritualistic, formal and off-putting, but very strong.&#8221; The preface also quote from a letter Ammons wrote in 1954, in which he gives this definition of the title&#8217;s first word: &#8220;the complex eye of the insect with its manifold facets, each perceiving a single ray of light but in toto calling up the outlines of the object.&#8221; Many perspectives, adding up to something still hazy. There is a lot of wind in these poems, wind and deserts and oceans, dry lands and wet lands, death and life: the potential of &#8220;Hill rain\/pouring from a rockpierced cloud,&#8221; and &#8220;the greenest hope\/autumn ever\/left this patch of reeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preface to this edition quotes from an interview that Ammons gave in 1995: these poems, Ammons says, &#8220;are sometimes very rigid and ritualistic, formal and off-putting, but very strong.&#8221; The preface also quote from a letter Ammons wrote in 1954, in which he gives this definition of the title&#8217;s first word: &#8220;the complex eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}