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Ammons's poetic genius has always been at home in forms ranging from brief lyrics to longer works.
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 a number of his best new shorter poems. The book is proof, once again, that Ammons is one of our major American poets.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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