{"product_id":"a-r-ammons-selected-poems-isbn-9781931082938","title":"A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems","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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.“Ammons (1926–2001) was a difficult figure to pin down. While unassociated with any particular poetic school or group, he picked up threads from Whitman, Williams, Frost and Stevens, weaving them into poetry all his own: equal parts pastoral meditation, philosophical speculation and homespun resignation. In the process, he won nearly every honor a major American poet can. Now, in the first selection to present samplings from the whole of his oeuvre (which ranges from two-line lyrics to book-length sequences), we can survey the extent is his poetic powers.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchie Randolph Ammons \u003c\/b\u003e(1926-2001) twice won the National Book Award for poetry in a career that extended over five decades and more than two dozen published works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Lehman\u003c\/b\u003e has been the series editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e since its creation in 1988. His books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen a Woman Loves a Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches in the New School graduate writing program in New York City.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302906581221,"sku":"NP9781931082938","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781931082938.jpg?v=1767720746","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-r-ammons-selected-poems-isbn-9781931082938","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}