Bøker av A. R. Ammons

The critic Harold Bloom writes, "With the publication of his Selected Poems (1968), soon after turning forty, A. R. Ammons quietly demonstrated a unique and central position in recent American poetry. . . . Recognition, as is always the case with a poetry difficult and central, has come slowly, but critics now begin to see in Ammons what he is: the maker of a body of poetry that fulfills Emerson's prophecy by addressing itself to life 'with sufficient plainness and with sufficient profoundness.'"

A superb long poem by the contemporary master of the form, Glare comprises two sections, "Strip" and "Scat Scan." The poem demonstrates, yet again, why A. R. Ammons's poetic voice is a national treasure: by turns cosmic, self-inflating, self-deflating, eloquent, intimate, bawdy, comic, precise-and always unmistakably his own.

Presenting the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 1981 to Ammons's A Coast of Trees Richard Locke, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, said, in part: "In the thirty years since A. R. Ammons published his first poems, he has fashioned a body of work that achieves a rare amplitude, specific gravity, and high seriousness. He is a poet of the American Sublime-a nature poet, as we say-standing in the tradition of Wordsworth, Emerson, and Whitman. Amidst the hue and cry of contemporary poetical factions, his work pursues its own integrity: clear, unblinking in its self-knowledge, remarkable for its radiant density of argument and feeling."

Corson's Inlet is A. R. Ammons's third book of poems.

"One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else."-Helen Vendler

"No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."-Harold Bloom

"Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry."-John Ashbery

Collects for the first time the prose writings of A.R. Ammons, one of America's most important and enduring contemporary poets. Set in Motion includes essays, reviews, and interviews as well as a selection of Ammons's poems, with commentary from the author about their inspiration and effects.

This collection of 160 short poems, demonstrating that brevity is indeed the soul of wit, spans Ammon's whole career, ranging from mordantly funny paradoxes to intensely compressed instants of lyric perception.

"There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me."-Donald Davie, New York Review of Books

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."

The Snow Poems is the most recent book of poetry by an author who has been called "perhaps the most imaginative, innovative poet writing today."

Mr. Ammons' poetry has appeared in such publications as the Hudson Review, The Nation (for which he was at one time poetry editor), the New York Times, Poetry, and the Partisan Review.

Diversifications is a collection of shorter poems by the poet whose Collected Poems won the National Book Award.

Briefings brings together more than eighty short lyrics that, as Harold Bloom writes, "maintain an utterly consistent purity of detached yet radiant vision."

Ammons's poetic genius has always been at home in forms ranging from brief lyrics to longer works.

A reissue of a body of work spanning two decades from one of our most treasured poets.

"No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."-Harold Bloom

This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.

This poem takes the form of a month-long journal, composed on a roll of adding machine tape.

"One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else."-Helen Vendler

"A maker who would have delighted Whitman and Emerson."-Harold Bloom

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.

Winner of the National Book Award.