Sumerian Vistas: Poems - Softcover

Ammons, A. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393304256 ISBN 13: 9780393304251

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987

Synopsis

Ammons's poetic genius has always been at home in forms ranging from brief lyrics to longer works. In the present volume? the first since his highly acclaimed Lake Effect Country? readers will find superb examples of work in both forms. "The Ridge Farm," which begins the book, and "Tombstones," at its center, are fine longer meditations, while "Motion's Holdings," the concluding section, contains a number of his best new shorter poems. The book is proof, once again, that Ammons is one of our major American poets.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

20 January
Abstinence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
Aquarium Watch
Autonomy
Backcasting
Burnout In The Overshoot
Checking Out The Resources
Chiseled Clouds
Citified
Coming Round
Dominant Margins
Dominion
Downstream
The Dwelling
Earliest Recollection
Early Indications
Eidos
Entranceways
Frost's Foretellings
Hairy Belly
Holding Sway
The Hubbub
Information Destiny
Laboratory Materials
Liquidities
Loft
Long Sorrowing
Memory
Motion's Holdings
Negative Symbiosis
Postulation
Pots And Pans
Power Plays
Questionable Procedures
Recoveries
Red Shift
Remembering Old Caves
The Ridge Farm
Saving Spending
Scaling Desire
Sight Seed
Some Any
Stone Keep
Subsidiary Roles
Surgeons
Target
Telling Moves
A Tendency To Ascendency
Tertiaries
Tombstones
Tracing Out
Trivial Means
Upper Limits
A Way Away
White Passages
Working Out
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0393304256
• ISBN 13: 9780393304251
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140