'No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons.' -- Harold Bloom Bosh and Flapdoodle is A. R. Ammons's final completed collection of poetry. '[A] vernacular American Ovid, an irreverent master of metamorphosis.' -- Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review 'His poems, framed in ordinary language and couched in stately couplets, are twisty and testy, bawdy and funny.' -- Time