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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

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A. R. Ammons
Age: 75 †
Born: 1926
Born: February 18
Died: 2001
Died: February 26
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University Teacher
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Whiteville
North Carolina
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