The Selected Poems, 1951-1977

By A.R. Ammons

Book Overview

Meditative, comic, emotionally wrenching, steeped in both the natural world and the life of the mind, the poetry of A. R. Ammons is at once cosmic in scope and intimate in its moment-to-moment... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039304470X
• ISBN13: 9780393044706
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Love Song

I bought it for one poem: "Love Song". It is the best poem about love and lust that I have ever read.

Precise observation of nature

Published in 1987, this book contains page-length poems selected by the author. You don't read these poems to get a story line, but rather a feeling of place. With Ammons its the precise observation of nature "Bees stopped on the rock", or a "Snow log". There are also mirrors of the self, "of a life that did become" in the poem Easter morning. In some ways, he is a modern Transcendentalist, looking at nature, observing carefully, and looking even deeper. I recommend this book to anyone, and its a good introduction to Ammons.