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Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1992
279 kr
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“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, …
Collected Poems, 1951-1971
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 2001
386 kr
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"It will seem increasingly to many attentive readers that this volume—the most distinguished book of American verse, in my judgment, since the publication of Wallace Stevens's Collected Poems in 1955—marks the permanent establishment of a major visionary poet."—Harold Bloom "No mere gathering of …
Selected Longer Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1980
263 kr
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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 …
Briefings
Poems Small and Easy
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1971
263 kr
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Bloom continues, "There are other American poets since Stevens who have composed a handful of memorable poems, but only Ammons has begun to show us a whole poetic world. More than his contemporaries, he has perfected a voice that, to cite Emerson, is 'ready to render an image of every created …
Uplands
New Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1970
238 kr
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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 …
Diversifications
Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1975
263 kr
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The poems are on a diversity of subjects, but through them all runs the strong unity of vision that has led critic Geoffrey Hartman to acclaim Ammons as "a major American poet" (New York Times Book Review). "If his importance was suspected before," wrote the poet John Ashbery in The New York Review …
Northfield Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1966
238 kr
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Ommateum, his first book, was published in 1955, and was followed in 1964 by Expressions of Sea Level. Corsons Inlet and Tape for the Turn of the Year were published in 1965 by Cornell University Press. In 1966, Mr. Ammons received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for creative writing in …
Corsons Inlet
A Book of Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Inbunden, 1965
460 kr
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Consisting of some of his best early work, including such strikingly inventive poems as "Jungle Knot," "Coon Song," "Four Motions for the Pea Vines," and the title piece, this volume provides incontestable evidence of Ammons's rapid early growth as a poet, of his ever-broadening range and deepening …
Snow Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1977
329 kr
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Critics and readers alike recognize Ammons's achievements: in 1973, his Collected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry; in 1975, his long poem Sphere: The Form of a Motion was nominated for the National Book Award and received the Bollingen Prize for Poetry: in 1977, he received and award …
Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons
Volume 1 1955-1977
Av A. R. Ammons, Robert M. West
Inbunden, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
551 kr
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A.R. Ammons produced some of the twentieth century’s most innovative and enduring poetry, collected here for the first time in its entirety. Volume I follows Ammons’s development through his National Book Award-winning Collected Poems 1951–1971 and his daring work of the 1970s. The second volume …
Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons
Volume 2 1978-2005
Av A. R. Ammons, Robert M. West
Inbunden, 2017
1446 kr
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A.R. Ammons produced some of the twentieth century’s most innovative and enduring poetry, collected here for the first time in its entirety. Volume I follows Ammons’s development through his National Book Award-winning Collected Poems 1951–1971 and his daring work of the 1970s. The second volume …
Lake Effect Country
Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1983
238 kr
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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 …
Selected Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1987
203 kr
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To the "visions of clarity and terror" in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his three books published since. The resulting collection is the essential starting place for new readers, the quarry for those familiar with his work. Among the new poems is "Easter Morning," …
Sumerian Vistas
Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1987
279 kr
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In the present volume—the first since his highly acclaimed Lake Effect Country—readers will find superb examples of work in both forms. "The Ridge Farm," which begins the book, and "Tombstones," at its center, are fine longer meditations, while "Motion's Holdings," the concluding section, contains …
Tape for the Turn of the Year
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1965
296 kr
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In the form of a journal covering the period December 6, 1963, through January 10, 1964, A. R. Ammons’s long, thin poem was written on a roll of adding-machine tape, then transferred foot by foot to manuscript. He chose this method as a serious experiment in making a poem adapt to something outside …
Sphere
The Form of a Motion
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1995
255 kr
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Sphere is the second of A. R. Ammons's long poems—following Tape for the Turn of the Year and preceding Garbage—that mark him as a master of this particular form. The sphere in question is the earth itself, and Ammons's wonderfully stocked mind roams globally, ruminating on subjects that range from …
Brink Road
Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1997
320 kr
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With characteristic economy, A. R. Ammons writes that "Brink Road lies off NY 96 between Candor and Catatonk." The very name suggests that we are ever in transition from one state of mind to another always on the edge of revelation.The more than 150 poems in Brink Road date from 1973 to the …
Glare
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 1998
191 kr
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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 …
Worldly Hopes
Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 2001
222 kr
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In the poetry of A. R. Ammons, Helen Vendler has written, "the scientific world is beautifully in balance with the perceptual one." Originally published in 1982, this collection reminds us why Ammons must be read by all those who would understand our age and one of its most brilliant voices.
Coast of Trees
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 2002
222 kr
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Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is an achievement fully comparable to his Uplands and Briefings. Among the poems likely to assume a permanent place in the Ammonsian …
Garbage
A Poem
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 2002
206 kr
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"A. R. Ammons's poem with the unforgettable title is a defense of meaning—'this,' the poet says, 'are awash in ideality.' Garbage is an epic of ideas: all life—not that of human beings alone, but every species—is shown to be part of an ultimate reality. Eternity is here and now. The argument ranges …
Bosh and Flapdoodle
Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 2006
279 kr
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Bosh and Flapdoodle is A. R. Ammons's last completed collection of poetry. Written over a six-week period, the book offers a series of candid, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking ruminations on age, illness, and death, while still finding room for the poet's always penetrating observations of …
Ommateum
With Doxology: Poems
Av A. R. Ammons
Häftad, 2008
238 kr
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This reissue of A. R. Ammons’s debut, published five decades ago in a rare edition, with its penetrating “Whitmanian chants . . . holds in it the mystery of his gradual development into a major American poet, who will be read by the most discerning until the last syllable of recorded time” (Harold …
Set in Motion
Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues
E-bok, 2009
426 kr
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Set in Motion collects for the first time the prose writings of A. R. Ammons, one of our most important and enduring contemporary poets. Hailed as a major force in American poetry by such redoubtable critics as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler, Ammons has reflected upon the influences of luminaries …
Set in Motion
Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues
Häftad, 1996
318 kr
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Set in Motion collects for the first time the prose writings of A. R. Ammons, one of our most important and enduring contemporary poets. Hailed as a major force in American poetry by such redoubtable critics as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler, Ammons has reflected upon the influences of luminaries …
Consider the Radiance
The New Selected Poems of A. R. Ammons
Av A. R. Ammons
Inbunden, 2027
480 kr
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Among A. R. Ammons’ most devout readers—and lifelong friends—was critic Harold Bloom, who declared Ammons’ Collected Poems “the most distinguished book of American verse since the publication of Wallace Stevens’ Collected Poems in 1955.” This new compendium of work by a major American poet, …
A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems
(American Poets Project #20)
Inbunden, 1900
242 kr
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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 …
