Lake Effect Country: Poems

By A.R. Ammons

Book Overview

Presenting the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 1981 to Ammons's A Coast of Trees Richard Locke, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, said, in part: In the thirty years since A. R. Ammons published his first poems, he has fashioned a body of work that achieves a rare amplitude, specific gravity, and high seriousness. He is a poet of the American Sublime--a nature poet, as we say--standing in the tradition of Wordsworth, Emerson, and Whitman. Amidst the hue and cry of contemporary poetical factions, his work pursues its own integrity: clear, unblinking in its self-knowledge, remarkable for its radiant density of argument and feeling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393301044
• ISBN13: 9780393301045
• Release Date: April 1983
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"