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.'"
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CONTRIBUTORS: A R Ammons
EAN: 9780393043303
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 116 g
HEIGHT: 213 cm
PUBLISHED BY: WW Norton & Co
DATE PUBLISHED: 1970-10-17
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GENRE: POETRY / American / General
WIDTH: 137 cm
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Book Themes:
Poetry, Poetry by individual poets
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.
