Books : A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
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by: A. R. Ammons
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781931082938
ISBN: 1931082936
Label: Library of America
Manufacturer: Library of America
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 130
Publication Date: April 06, 2006
Publisher: Library of America
Sales Rank: 398024
Studio: Library of America
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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 quest to find forms capacious enough for an imagination intent on finding a place for everything.'
A compound, in editor David Lehman's words, of 'wisdom, pathos, humor, mortal longing, and intimations of immortality,' the work of A. R. Ammons is like nothing else in modern American poetry. Ammons's tireless formal invention and restless curiosity about every aspect of nature and of the mind are embodied in poetry that is effortlessly accessible and generous in its impulses. Whether spreading out in the long forms of Tape for the Turn of the Year or Garbage, or honing his perceptions down to the extreme brevity of his shorter lyrics, he holds tight to his vision of the way 'all day / life itself is bending, / weaving, changing, / adapting, failing, / succeeding.'
This new selection covering the whole range of Ammons's career offers a superb introduction to the pleasures and surprises of his work. His uncanny ability to balance wide-ranging abstract speculation with meticulous observation of natural phenomena, in poetry that encompasses moods of tragic pathos, low comedy, and seemingly casual profundity marks him as one of the preeminent figures in our recent literature
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