The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons

Volume 1 1955-1977

12 December 2017

A. R. Ammons (Author), Robert M. West (Editor)

With an Introduction by Helen Vendler

Description

“One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler

A.R. Ammons produced some of the twentieth century’s most innovative and enduring poetry, collected here for the first time in its entirety. Volume I follows Ammons’s development through his National Book Award-winning Collected Poems 1951–1971 and his daring work of the 1970s. The second volume rounds out Ammons’s rich middle phase and startling later work, including the posthumously published Bosh and Flapdoodle.

The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons offers authoritative texts of every published poem and includes over one hundred previously uncollected poems by “unquestionably among the best-loved poets of our time” (David Lehman).

Reviews

"It’s a rocking double-wide mobile home of electric American verse." — International New York Times

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    This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.
  • Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems

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    E Book, 2019

    "No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."—Harold Bloom
  • Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems

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    E Book, 2019

    “Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry.”—John Ashbery
  • Northfield Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    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.
  • Sphere: The Form of a Motion

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    Paperback, 2012

    "There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me."—Donald Davie, New York Review of Books

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