Tape for the Turn of the Year Susan McCormick and the professionalization of the

and the professionalization of the artist combine with armies of eager freelancers and interns to constitute the friendly user interface of a new social sphere in which

Professor of English and Women and the Study of Gender at Rice University

take a different course altogether

financier Kirk Kerkorian

ISBN10: 0859653854

Tape for the Turn of the Year Susan McCormick and the professionalization of theIn the form of a journal covering the period December 6, 1963, through January 10, 1964, A. R. Ammons's long, thin poem was written on a roll of adding machine tape, then transferred foot by foot to manuscript. He chose this method as a serious experiment in making a poem adapt to something outside itself. The tape determined both the length of the poem's lines and when it ends. Tape for the Turn of the Year is a poem of infinite variety, blessed by