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.
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CONTRIBUTORS: A. R. Ammons
EAN: 9780393009620
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 163 g
HEIGHT: 208 cm
PUBLISHED BY: WW Norton & Co
DATE PUBLISHED: 1980-04-01
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GENRE: POETRY / American / General
WIDTH: 137 cm
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Biography, Literature and Literary studies
A. R. Ammons’s (1926–2001) was a two-time winner of the National Book Award and the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award. His many additional honors include the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
