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 present, dealing with Ammons's concerns with language, mortality, and the forces underlying the natural world. With elegance, wit, and ruminative gravity, Brink Road is an important addition to one of the most enduring bodies of poetry of our time.
Format:
CONTRIBUTORS: A. R. Ammons
EAN: 9780393315974
COUNTRY: United States
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 321 g
HEIGHT: 211 cm
PUBLISHED BY: WW Norton & Co
DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-09-03
CITY:
GENRE: POETRY / American / General
WIDTH: 142 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
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.
