Eyesight [CF:342-40207]

To benefit Chorus America, Stucky allowed himself to be auctioned off as a prize - the high bidder would receive a new work from the composer. After a few years and not really hearing anything, Stucky suddenly found himself up against a deadline. He reached back to a favorite poem by A.R. Ammons, Eyesight, which, he says, "Won't let...his reader rest till the very last word...one of those sudden insights that leave us breathless."