A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems

A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems PDF 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.

A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems

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

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Book Description
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.

The Selected Poems

The Selected Poems PDF Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393303964
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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A.R. Ammons's new selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier edition, 'makes available the very best of him.' To the 'visions of clarity and terror' in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his three books published since. The resulting collection is the essential starting place for new readers, the quarry for those familiar with his work. Among the new poems is 'Easter Morning.' which the critic Helen Vendler called 'a classic poem, a revelation.

A Coast of Trees

A Coast of Trees PDF 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."

Selected Longer Poems

Selected Longer Poems PDF Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324003685
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Readers already familiar with Ammons’s longer mode in other books will welcome this new collection, while those familiar only with the shorter poems will find their appreciation of his work both deepened and heightened. The Selected Poems: 1951-1977 was described by one critic as “an indispensable book”; Selected Longer Poems is an indispensable companion to it. The distinguished poet A. R. Ammons once described himself as, “not so much looking for the shape as being available to any shape that may be summoning itself through me from the self not mine but ours.” This “availability” has enabled his poetic genius to be at home in forms raging from brief lyrics—the best of which he brought together in The Selected Poems: 1951-1977—all the way to poems of full book length.

The Selected Poems (Expanded Edition)

The Selected Poems (Expanded Edition) PDF Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324003715
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Book Description
A. R. Ammons's selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier version, "makes available the very best of him." To the "visions of clarity and terror" in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his three books published since. The resulting collection is the essential starting place for new readers, the quarry for those familiar with his work. Among the new poems is "Easter Morning," which the critic Helen Vendler called "a classic poem . . . a revelation."

The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 1955-1977

The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 1955-1977 PDF 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.”

The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons

The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons PDF 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

Collected Poems, 1930-83

Collected Poems, 1930-83 PDF Author: Josephine Miles
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067679
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Winner of the 1984 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Originally published in 1983, Miles's Collected Poems received seven awards, including the Lenore Marshall/Nation Poetry Prize, and was one of three finalists for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. A striking consistency -- of tone, of diction, of purpose -- characterizes Miles's life work. It has been a life well spent. --Publisher's Weekly. Miles is a poet of the first rank whose work might well be compared to that of Williams or Moore ... Collected Poems is a treasury of poetic wit and human understanding that belongs in all poetry collections. --Library Journal. Miles's work is one of the finest and most solid bodies of poetry to be found in this country. --A.R. Ammons.

Glare

Glare PDF Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039331779X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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I reject the North because it is not / my native ground, and I reject the / South because it rejected me, and I / reject European clutterment because / we fought to put that ocean between / us. I identify with no sort or kind: / I am by myself.

The Selected Poems, 1951-1977

The Selected Poems, 1951-1977 PDF Author: A. R. Ammons
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393044706
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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More than eighty works by the innovative contemporary poet includes Expressions of Sea Level, The Arc Inside and Out, Delaware Water Gap, and In the Wind My Rescue Is