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A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #20) Hardcover – April 6, 2006
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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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Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.
- Print length130 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLibrary of America
- Publication dateApril 6, 2006
- Dimensions4.72 x 0.53 x 7.79 inches
- ISBN-101931082936
- ISBN-13978-1931082938
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David Lehman has been the series editor of The Best American Poetry since its creation in 1988. His books of poetry include New and Selected Poems, When a Woman Loves a Man, and The Daily Mirror. He teaches in the New School graduate writing program in New York City.
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- Publisher : Library of America; First Edition (April 6, 2006)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 130 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1931082936
- ISBN-13 : 978-1931082938
- Item Weight : 7.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.72 x 0.53 x 7.79 inches
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Archie Ammons died in 2001, and I believe these poems range from 1951 to 1997.