Re: So, this morning I got down a favorite book of poetry which I evidently

[Mark Kohut]

Thank you!

And there is a Vineland , New Jersey. And probably a Millville.

Cannot believe I found a reader who knew it.....the wonders of the
P--List.....

Unexpercted


On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 8:52 AM Morgan Sandquist <morgannels at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Great poem. I just went through it with a friend over the turn off this
> year.
>
> When Ammons wrote it, he was living in South Jersey and hadn't started at
> Cornell yet. Those are places near where he lived then.
>
> He wrote it from the fall of 1963 into the winter of 1964. He started it
> about two weeks after the Kennedy assassination, but never seems to refer
> to it. That strikes me as notable--it would be like starting a memoir in
> late September 2001 and not mentioning 9/11.
>
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> > Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:29:14 -0400
> > From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
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> > hadn't read again since Vineland was published....I did read it a few
> times
> > at the turn of the year when I was
> > younger.....
> >
> > It is called* Tape for the Turn of the Yea*r, by the great
> > Cornell-ensconced poet A.R. Ammons.
> > 1965.
> > He bought an adding machine tape because he thought he could write/type a
> > long, thin poem on it. He did.
> >
> > After some talk about unusual things, appearances by folks he met in
> public
> > he writes:
> >
> > p.22...
> > ,,..:"one night I saw
> > something come apart
> > over Vineland:it streaked in, glowed, &
> >      Slowly tore apart:
> > I thought it was a
> >      satellite
> >          re-entering ...
> > ......................................
> > ...too big to land, as
> >    I thought it wd
> >    in Millville..."
> >
> >
> > There is no Vineland nor Millville anywhere near Ithaca so this would
> > seem to be a fine o'erreaching metaphor for Vineland being the whole USA
> > since
> > Millville's most famous town seems to be in the deep south....
> >
> > Pynchon has been partial to writers from Cornell all his life. He read
> and
> > blurbed ones
> > from friends he knew...Had to have known of Ammons and maybe read him
> > therefore....(besides
> > that he is very good) ?
> >
> > Mark, independent, lucky sometimes, unprovable "scholar" LOL....
> > .
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