The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons
by Edited by Robert M. West
Buy on Amazon"So I said I am Ezra / and the wind whipped my throat / gaming for the sounds of my voice. . . ." So begins one of the most remarkable oeuvres in the history of American poetry. The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons, Volume I presents the first half of Archie Randolph Ammons's long career, including the complete texts of his three book-length poems from that period: the verse diary Tape for the Turn of the Year, the Bollingen Prize-winning Sphere: The Form of a Motion, and the daring kaleidoscope of The Snow Poems, which late in life Ammons said of all his long poems was his favorite.…
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