A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #20)
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Meditative, comic, emotionally wrenching, steeped in both the natural world and the life of the mind, the poetry of A. R. Ammons is at once cosmic in scope and intimate in its moment-to-moment transformations. With his mastery of description and cadence, his roiling wit and fearless gaze, Ammons was a philosopher of the everyday who found surprise everywhere he looked. "He is often witty, sometimes bawdy," writes editor David Lehman, "on a perpetual...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1931082936
ISBN13:9781931082938
Release Date:April 2006
Publisher:Library of America
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 4.8" x 7.6"
Customer Reviews
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Love Song
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I bought it for one poem: "Love Song". It is the best poem about love and lust that I have ever read.
Precise observation of nature
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Published in 1987, this book contains page-length poems selected by the author. You don't read these poems to get a story line, but rather a feeling of place. With Ammons its the precise observation of nature "Bees stopped on the rock", or a "Snow log". There are also mirrors of the self, "of a life that did become" in the poem Easter morning. In some ways, he is a modern Transcendentalist, looking at nature, observing carefully, and looking even deeper. I recommend this book to anyone, and its a good introduction to Ammons.
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