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“Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry.”—John Ashbery
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 Bloom).A. R. Ammons
A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), author of many books of poetry, won a Bollingen Prize, two National Book Awards, a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Library of Congress Prize for Poetry, a Wallace Stevens Award, and a Robert Frost Medal. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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