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...poem can feel preordained. We don't find poems telling us to build more pylons, for example, and we want all our poetry, all our great poetry, to have the freedom to be unexpected. Any kind of presetting can be disastrous for a poem. Ammons's poem achieves greatness through its surprising language, and the imagery and sound are striking - "the dark / work of the deepest cells". The meaning is not ...

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