ADDRESSING EVERY PHASE of A. R. Ammons's oeuvre, from his beginnings in the 1950s to his late masterpieces "Garbage and "Glare, this collection explores the personal side of a poet often still seen as forbiddingly abstract and intellectual. Included are essays by Helen Vendler, Alice Fulton, Harold Bloom, and John Ashbery, among others.
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Roger Gilbert is a professor at Cornell University and lives in Ithaca, New York. David Burak teaches at Santa Monica College and lives in Santa Monica, California.
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Friends called him Archie. He lived from 1926 to 2001. He had difficulties reading his work in public. Two of the mentors of A.R. Ammons were Josephine Miles and Josephine Jacobsen.
At age 26 he was the principal of an elementary school. He wrote of the marshes of New Jersey, CORSON'S INLET. 1955 marked the end of the career of Wallace Stevens and the start of the career of A.R. Ammons. In prose Ammons wrote "A Poem is a Walk". John Wheelwright and A.R. Ammons both had tics and quirks asserts John Ashbery. Ammons's landscape is American. He worked at a glass factory in New Jersey. He rose to the top rank of American poets quietly. As a whole, Ammons's poetry is religious in character. Ammons wrote pastoral poems. Frost's country speakers are more sociable than the abrupt utterances of Ammons. Natural facts, closely observed, tick through his verse. Archie Ammons was a natural philosopher. He brought the short abstract lyric to perfection. He was prolific and maintained that anxiety was the source of his writing. Ammons wrote his book-length poems on adding machine tape.
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Considering the Radiance: Essays on A. R. Ammons pays tribute to an American poet whom many consider one of the twentieth century's major figures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concern for the separate reach, unwelcoming forms, unremembered seas, radiant toys, pilgrim poems, single creek, mirroring mind, surrendered self, mind feeding, collected poems, transparent eyeball, worldly hopes, new walk Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Corsons Inlet, Brink Road, North Carolina, Gravelly Run, Harold Bloom, The City Limits, New England, New Jersey, Wallace Stevens, Archie Ammons, Josephine Miles, New York, Ridge Farm, Northfield Poems, Selected Poems, Sumerian Vistas, Summer Session, Cascadilla Falls, Goldwin Smith Hall, Nelly Myers, Richard Howard, Temple of Zeus, Lake Effect Country, Mountain Talk, Phyllis Janowitz New!
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Considering the Radiance: Essays on A. R. Ammons pays tribute to an American poet whom many consider one of the twentieth century's major figures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concern for the separate reach, unwelcoming forms, unremembered seas, radiant toys, pilgrim poems, single creek, mirroring mind, surrendered self, mind feeding, collected poems, transparent eyeball, worldly hopes, new walk Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Corsons Inlet, Brink Road, North Carolina, Gravelly Run, Harold Bloom, The City Limits, New England, New Jersey, Wallace Stevens, Archie Ammons, Josephine Miles, New York, Ridge Farm, Northfield Poems, Selected Poems, Sumerian Vistas, Summer Session, Cascadilla Falls, Goldwin Smith Hall, Nelly Myers, Richard Howard, Temple of Zeus, Lake Effect Country, Mountain Talk, Phyllis Janowitz New!
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- Tape For The Turn Of The Year by Ammons R A on 16 pages
- Brink Road: Poems by A. R. Ammons on 13 pages
- The Snow Poems by A. R. Ammons on 12 pages
- A Coast of Trees by A. R. Ammons on 12 pages
- Collected Poems: 1939-62 v. 2 by William Carlos Williams on 8 pages
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