{"product_id":"a-r-ammons-a-r-ammons-9781931082938","title":"A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #20)","description":"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 transformations. With his mastery of description and cadence, his roiling wit and fearless gaze, Ammons was a philosopher of the everyday who found surprise everywhere he looked. \"He is often witty, sometimes bawdy,\" writes editor David Lehman, \"on a perpetual quest to find forms capacious enough for an imagination intent on finding a place for everything.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA compound, in editor David Lehman's words, of \"wisdom, pathos, humor, mortal longing, and intimations of immortality,\" the work of A. R. Ammons is like nothing else in modern American poetry. Ammons's tireless formal invention and restless curiosity about every aspect of nature and of the mind are embodied in poetry that is effortlessly accessible and generous in its impulses. Whether spreading out in the long forms of \u003ci\u003eTape for the Turn of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eGarbage\u003c\/i\u003e, or honing his perceptions down to the extreme brevity of his shorter lyrics, he holds tight to his vision of the way \"all day \/ life itself is bending, \/ weaving, changing, \/ adapting, failing, \/ succeeding.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new selection covering the whole range of Ammons's career offers a superb introduction to the pleasures and surprises of his work. His uncanny ability to balance wide-ranging abstract speculation with meticulous observation of natural phenomena, in poetry that encompasses moods of tragic pathos, low comedy, and seemingly casual profundity marks him as one of the preeminent figures in our recent literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the American Poets Project\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. R. Ammons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1931082936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781931082938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.56h x 4.78w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/08\/2006","brand":"A. R. Ammons","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43996451340543,"sku":"9781931082938","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4fa7ed48-1f13-43fb-9de8-59d7df12b50b.jpg?v=1683341771","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-r-ammons-a-r-ammons-9781931082938","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}