Books by R Ammons

Corson's Inlet is A. R. Ammons's third book of poems.

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"A. R. Ammons's poem with the unforgettable title is a defense of meaning 'this, ' the poet says, 'are awash in ideality.' "Garbage" is an epic of ... More

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"There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me." Donald Davie, New York Review of Books

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Diversifications is a collection of shorter poems by the poet whose Collected Poems won the National Book Award.

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Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry. John Ashbery

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A reissue of a body of work spanning two decades from one of our most treasured poets.

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Prose reflections on the nature, nuances, and undiminished importance of poetry

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Filled with sharp irony and passionate insight, the more than 100 poems in the collection span the career of one of the deans of contemporary poetry. ... More

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This book collects many of the poems that A. R. Ammons wrote between 1964 and 1970. The poems here include brief lyrics and such longer works as ... More

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This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.

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Ommateum, his first book, was published in 1955, and was followed in 1964 by Expressions of Sea Level. Corsons Inlet and Tape for the Turn of the ... More

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The Snow Poems is the most recent book of poetry by an author who has been called "perhaps the most imaginative, innovative poet writing today."

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"No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons." Harold Bloom

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A superb long poem by the contemporary master of the form, "Glare" consists of two sections: "Strip" and "Scat Scan". The poem demonstrates, yet ... More

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"A maker who would have delighted Whitman and Emerson." Harold Bloom

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Ammons's poetic genius has always been at home in forms ranging from brief lyrics to longer works.

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Award-winning poet A.R. Ammons claims the name "Brink Road" suggests that we are ever in transition from one state of mind to another always on the ... More

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Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize

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Edited by the 1993 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, this collection brings together some of the most original poems being written today. ... More

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