Collected Poems, 1951-1971 by A R Ammons

Collected Poems, 1951-1971 by A R Ammons

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A reissue of a body of work spanning two decades from one of our most treasured poets.

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Collected Poems, 1951-1971 by A R Ammons

It will seem increasingly to many attentive readers that this volume the most distinguished book of American verse, in my judgment, since the publication of Wallace Stevens's Collected Poems in 1955 marks the permanent establishment of a major visionary poet. Harold Bloom No mere gathering of poems, this collection is like one an explorer brings back. David Kalstone
A. R. Ammons’s (1926–2001) was a two-time winner of the National Book Award and the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award. His many additional honors include the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
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ISBN 13 9780393321920
ISBN 10 0393321924
Title Collected Poems, 1951-1971
Author A R Ammons
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Year published 2001-09-12
Number of pages 418
Prizes Winner of National Book Award 1973
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