Diversifications: Poems

Ammons, A. R.

ISBN 10: 0393044149 / ISBN 13: 9780393044140

Published by Norton, New York, 1975

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Tight clean unmarked book in black cloth; dj bright with a nick to one corner. 98 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Diversifications: Poems
• Publisher: Norton, New York
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393044149
• ISBN 13: 9780393044140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Diversifications is a collection of shorter poems by the poet whose Collected Poems won the National Book Award.

The poems are on a diversity of subjects, but through them all runs the strong unity of vision that has led critic Geoffrey Hartman to acclaim Ammons as "a major American poet" (New York Times Book Review). "If his importance was suspected before," wrote the poet John Ashbery in The New York Review of Books, "it is now confirmed." Ammons came late to poetry, and has come even more lately into national recognition. That recognition is solid, however, and can only be increased by this, his latest volume.

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.