"No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."—Harold BloomMore
Briefings brings together more than eighty short lyrics that, as Harold Bloom writes, "maintain an utterly consistent purity of detached yet radiant vision."More
"No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."—Harold BloomMore
This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.More
A reissue of a body of work spanning two decades from one of our most treasured poets.More
Corson's Inlet is A. R. Ammons's third book of poems.More
Diversifications is a collection of shorter poems by the poet whose Collected Poems won the National Book Award.More
Winner of the National Book Award.More
"Glare is a high-energy, relentlessly self-aware collision with the whole of life."—Albert Mobilio, SalonMore
Lake Effect Country is the newest collection by the poet whom the critic Josephine Jacobsen has described as "a formidable and outstandingly original contributor to the best of American poetry."More
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.More
“Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry.”—John AshberyMore
“Filled with sharp irony and passionate insight, the more than 100 poems in the collection span the career of one of the deans of contemporary poetry. . . . Ammons makes you laugh and forces you to think hard about the way humans relate to natural phenomena and to themselves. From such simple, short expression emerge complex, often confounding ideas. New readers of poetry as well as those with an active interest in lyric verse will love this volume.”—BooklistMore
Expanded Edition
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."More
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."More
"There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me."—Donald Davie, New York Review of BooksMore
Ammons's poetic genius has always been at home in forms ranging from brief lyrics to longer works.More
This book collects many of the poems that A. R. Ammons wrote between 1964 and 1970. The poems here include brief lyrics and such longer works as "Summer Session 1968" and "Guitar Recicativos."More
"A maker who would have delighted Whitman and Emerson."—Harold BloomMore