Author: A. R. Ammons
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Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393028706
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Forcefully demonstrating that brevity is the soul of wit, 160 short poems, spanning the career of one of America's most honored poets, range from mordantly funny paradoxes to compressed incidents of lyric perception

Author: David Burak
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393059991
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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"A. R. Ammons has exploded into the company of American poets that includes Whitman and Emerson and articulates the major impulse of the national expression: the paradox of poetry as process and yet impediment to process."

Author: Mayme Kendrick Hostetter
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393324112
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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Winner of the National Book Award.

Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: American Poets Project
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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A collection of over sixty-eight poems by American poet A.R. Ammons in which he makes observations of the natural world and speculates about philosophical topics.

Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324003693
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is an achievement fully comparable to his Uplands and Briefings. Among the poems likely to assume a permanent place in the Ammonsian (and American) canon are the majestic title lyric and 'Swells,' 'Easter Morning,' 'Keepsake,' 'Givings,' and 'Persistences.' Again Ammons has confirmed his vital continuities with the central Whitmanian tradition of our poetry, and his crucial place in that panoply."

Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324003855
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1152

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“One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler “So I said I am Ezra / and the wind whipped my throat / gaming for the sounds of my voice. . . .” So begins one of the most remarkable oeuvres in the history of American poetry. The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons, Volume I presents the first half of Archie Randolph Ammons’s long career, including the complete texts of his three book-length poems from that period: the verse diary Tape for the Turn of the Year, the Bollingen Prize–winning Sphere: The Form of a Motion, and the daring kaleidoscope of The Snow Poems, which late in life Ammons said of all his long poems was his favorite. Here are many of Ammons’s most widely celebrated lyrics and meditations, including “Corsons Inlet,” “Still,” “Gravelly Run,” and “The City Limits.” Others are more directly inspired by his roots in the rural south, among them “Nelly Myers,” “Silver,” and “Mule Song.” Here too are conversations with mountains (as in “Classic” and “Mountain Talk”) and exchanges with the wind (“The Wide Land” and “Mansion”), materialist explanations of reality (“Mechanism” and “Catalyst”) and prayers (such as the several poems titled “Hymn”). A poet drawn to theorizing about poetry, Ammons offers both sophisticated discussions of the art (as in “Poetics” and “Essay on Poetics”) and disarming assurance: “I believe in fun.” The text of each poem has been established after careful consideration of Ammons’s manuscripts and other prepublication materials. Endnotes detail the poems’ composition and publication histories, and also helpfully annotate references made within the poems. This volume confirms Richard Howard’s judgment: “Here was a great poet, surely one of the largest to speak among us.”

Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393357171
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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"There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me."—Donald Davie, New York Review of Books Sphere is the second of A. R. Ammons's long poems—following Tape for the Turn of the Year and preceding Garbage—that mark him as a master of this particular form. The sphere in question is the earth itself, and Ammons's wonderfully stocked mind roams globally, ruminating on subjects that range from galaxies to gas stations. It is a remarkable achievement, comparable in importance to Wallace Stevens's Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.

Author: Steven P. Schneider
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Schneider presents new and penetrating readings of Ammons's central poems, such as "Corsons Inlet," Sphere, and "Easter Morning.".