Sphere: The Form of a Motion (Sara F. Yoseloff Memorial Publications) - Softcover

Ammons, A. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393313107 ISBN 13: 9780393313109

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Synopsis

"There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me."―Donald Davie, New York Review of Books

Sphere is the second of A. R. Ammons's long poems―following Tape for the Turn of the Year and preceding Garbage―that mark him as a master of this particular form. The sphere in question is the earth itself, and Ammons's wonderfully stocked mind roams globally, ruminating on subjects that range from galaxies to gas stations. It is a remarkable achievement, comparable in importance to Wallace Stevens's Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.

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About the Author

A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), author of many books of poetry, won a Bollingen Prize; two National Book Awards; a National Book Critics Circle Award; a Library of Congress Prize for Poetry; a Wallace Stevens Award; and a Robert Frost Medal. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught at Cornell University.

From the Back Cover

Sphere is the second of A.R. Ammons's long poems--following Tape for the Turn of the Year and preceding Garbage--that mark him as a master of this particular form. The sphere in question is the Earth itself, and Ammons's wonderfully stocked mind roams globally, ruminating on subjects that range from galaxies to gas stations. It is a remarkable achievement, comparable in importance to Wallace Steven's Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393313107
• ISBN 13: 9780393313109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80