Books by A. R. Ammons

Corson's Inlet is A. R. Ammons's third book of poems.

"One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else."-Helen Vendler

"No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."-Harold Bloom

This collection of 160 short poems, demonstrating that brevity is indeed the soul of wit, spans Ammon's whole career, ranging from mordantly funny paradoxes to intensely compressed instants of lyric perception.

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

A. R. Ammons's selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier version, "makes available the very best of him."

The Snow Poems is the most recent book of poetry by an author who has been called "perhaps the most imaginative, innovative poet writing today."

Mr. Ammons' poetry has appeared in such publications as the Hudson Review, The Nation (for which he was at one time poetry editor), the New York Times, Poetry, and the Partisan Review.

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

Briefings brings together more than eighty short lyrics that, as Harold Bloom writes, "maintain an utterly consistent purity of detached yet radiant vision."

Ammons's poetic genius has always been at home in forms ranging from brief lyrics to longer works.

A reissue of a body of work spanning two decades from one of our most treasured poets.

"No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."-Harold Bloom

This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.

This poem takes the form of a month-long journal, composed on a roll of adding machine tape.

"One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else."-Helen Vendler

"A maker who would have delighted Whitman and Emerson."-Harold Bloom

The distinguished poet A. R. Ammons once described himself as, "not so much looking for the shape as being available to any shape that may be summoning itself through me from the self not mine but ours." This "availability" has enabled his poetic genius to be at home in forms raging from brief lyrics-the best of which he brought together in The Selected Poems: 1951-1977-all the way to poems of full book length.

Winner of the National Book Award.