A. R. Ammons, Author . Norton $22.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-05952-6
By the time of his death in 2001, Ammons had won almost every award a poet can win. A National Book Award, a Pulitzer and a MacArthur "genius" grant (among others) honored his folksy yet intellectually rewarding verse, from sprawling,...
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A. R. Ammons, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-04096-8
Ammons has given his book an entirely too appropriate title. Full of reflection, the collection throbs with the type of light a reader might tolerate only when expecting to be led down an important road. Instead we are led astray by a book split...
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A. R. Ammons, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (121p) ISBN 978-0-393-03542-1
This book-length poem is the second in Ammons's ( Sumerian Vistas ) prolific and distinguished career. In it, 18 sections of meditative free verse range through mortality, nature and our human place in it, as well as through the ordering circuits of
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A. R. Ammons, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03958-0
At the end of Brink Road is ""Summer Place,"" a 45-page piece written in narrative triplets. While the jacket copy, like a warning sign, declares that this poem ""unfolds the quotidian events of the poet's summer vacation,"" there is, fortunately,...
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A. R. Ammons, Author, David Lehman, Editor Library of America $20 (130p) ISBN 978-1-931082-93-8
Ammons (1926-2001) was a difficult figure to pin down. While unassociated with any particular poetic school or group, he picked up threads from Whitman, Williams, Frost and Stevens, weaving them into poetry all his own: equal parts pastoral...
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