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A. R. Ammons
A. R. Ammons
Awards
Winner — Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, 1994
Winner — National Book Award, 1993
Winner — National Book Award, 1973
Winner — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1981
Books by A. R. Ammons
Diversifications: Poems
Paperback, 1975
Diversifications is a collection of shorter poems by the poet whose Collected Poems won the National Book Award.
Northfield Poems
Paperback, 2012
Mr. Ammons' poetry has appeared in such publications as the Hudson Review, The Nation (for which he was at one time poetry editor), the New York Times, Poetry, and the Partisan Review.
The Snow Poems
Paperback, 1977
The Snow Poems is the most recent book of poetry by an author who has been called "perhaps the most imaginative, innovative poet writing today."
Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems
Paperback, 2008
“Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry.”—John Ashbery
The Selected Poems
Expanded Edition, Paperback, 1987
A. R. Ammons's selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier version, "makes available the very best of him."
Sumerian Vistas: Poems
Paperback, 1987
Ammons's poetic genius has always been at home in forms ranging from brief lyrics to longer works.
Tape for the Turn of the Year
Paperback, 1995
Sphere: The Form of a Motion
Paperback, 2012
"There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me."—Donald Davie, New York Review of Books
Brink Road: Poems
Paperback, 1997
"No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."—Harold Bloom
Glare
Paperback, 1998
"Glare is a high-energy, relentlessly self-aware collision with the whole of life."—Albert Mobilio, Salon