Selected poems / A.R. Ammons ; David Lehman, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ammons, A. R., 1926-2001.

Contributor:

Lehman, David, 1948-

Series:

American poets project ; 20.

American poets project ; 20

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 2006

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xxv, 130 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Library of America, [2006]

Contents:

So I Said I Am Ezra 1

A Crippled Angel 2

Whose Timeless Reach 3

Hymn 4

Come Prima 5

Mountain Liar 6

Gravelly Run 7

Close-Up 8

Mansion 10

Guide 11

Uh, Philosophy 12

Epiphany 15

Still 16

Corsons Inlet 18

Moment 23

Reflective 24

Communication 24

Mountain Talk 25

He Held Radical Light 25

Poetics 26

from Tape for Turn of the Year 28

Dominion 43

Cascadilla Falls 44

Reversal 45

Positions 46

Correction 46

Mirrorment 47

The Put-Down Come On 47

Play 48

Working Still 49

The Unifying Principle 49

Triphammer Bridge 51

The City Limits 51

For Harold Bloom 53

from Sphere: The Form of a Motion 54

Ballad 62

One Must Recall as One Mourns the End 64

The Perfect Journey Is 65

You Can't Imitate 65

Some Nights I Go Out to Piss 68

In Memoriam Mae Noblitt 69

Easter Morning 71

Sunday at McDonald's 75

Poverty 76

Immoderation 76

The Role of Society in the Artist 77

Shit List; or, Omnium-gatherum of Diversity into Unity 78

Immortality 80

The Fairly High Assimilation Rag 81

I Could Not Be Here At All 82

Autonomy 83

Their Sex Life 84

For Louise and Tom Gossett 84

from Garbage 85

Anxiety's Prosody 91

Eternity's Taciturnity 93

Boon 94

Continuity 95

from Glare 95

Shot Glass 107

Birthday Poem to My Wife 109

A Few Acres of Shiny Water 110

In View of the Fact 111

Speaking 113

Frumpy Cronies 113

Shuffled Marbles 115

Don't Rush on My Account 116

Run Ragged 117

"When the bubbles of nothingness rise" 119.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1931082936

OCLC:

62896545

Publisher Number:

9781931082938