Coast of Trees

by A R Ammons

2020-12-29 04:59:15

This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is... Read more
This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.

Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is an achievement fully comparable to his Uplands and Briefings. Among the poems likely to assume a permanent place in the Ammonsian (and American) canon are the majestic title lyric and ''Swells,'' ''Easter Morning,'' ''Keepsake,'' ''Givings,'' and ''Persistences.'' Again Ammons has confirmed his vital continuities with the central Whitmanian tradition of our poetry, and his crucial place in that panoply." Less

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File size8.25 X 5.5 X 0.25 in
Print pages72
PublisherWW Norton
Publication date December 24, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780393324105
Archie Randolph Ammons (Feb 18, 1926 – Feb25, 2001) was an American poet. Ammons joined the faculty of Cornell University, eventually becoming Goldwin Smith Professor of English and Poet in Residenc...

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