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by: A. R. Ammons
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393303964
ISBN: 0393303969
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 119
Publication Date: 1987-03
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 586265
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Rating: - Love Song
I bought it for one poem: "Love Song". It is the best poem about love and lust that I have ever read.
Rating: - Precise observation of nature
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, ... Read More
Rating: - Precise observation of nature
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, ... Read More
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