A. R. Ammons : Selected Poems

Containing works that evince meditative, comic, or emotionally poignant themes, a volume of poetic works by the writer of The Last Avant-Garde includes pieces that reflect his descriptive cadences as well as his ability to bridge the gap between broad and intimate topics.

Introduction

xiii

So I Said I Am Ezra

1

(1)

A Crippled Angel

2

(1)

Whose Timeless Reach

3

(1)

Hymn

4

(1)

Come Prima

5

(1)

Mountain Liar

6

(1)

Gravelly Run

7

(1)

Close-Up

8

(2)

Mansion

10

(1)

Guide

11

(1)

Uh, Philosophy

12

(3)

Epiphany

15

(1)

Still

16

(2)

Corsons Inlet

18

(5)

Moment

23

(1)

Reflective

24

(1)

Communication

24

(1)

Mountain Talk

25

(1)

He Held Radical Light

25

(1)

Poetics

26

(2)

from Tape for the Turn of the Year

28

(15)

Dominion

43

(1)

Cascadilla Falls

44

(1)

Reversal

45

(1)

Positions

46

(1)

Correction

46

(1)

Mirrorment

47

(1)

The Put-Down Come On

47

(1)

Play

48

(1)

Working Still

49

(1)

The Unifying Principle

49

(2)

Triphammer Bridge

51

(1)

The City Limits

51

(2)

For Harold Bloom

53

(1)

from Sphere: The Form of a Motion

54

(8)

Ballad

62

(2)

One Must Recall as One Mourns the End

64

(1)

The Perfect Journey Is

65

(1)

You Can't Imitate

65

(3)

Some Nights I Go Out to Piss

68

(1)

In Memoriam Mae Noblitt

69

(2)

Easter Morning

71

(4)

Sunday at McDonald's

75

(1)

Poverty

76

(1)

Immoderation

76

(1)

The Role of Society in the Artist

77

(1)

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

78

(2)

Immortality

80

(1)

The Fairly High Assimilation Rag

81

(1)

I Could Not Be Here At All

82

(1)

Autonomy

83

(1)

Their Sex Life

84

(1)

For Louise and Tom Gossett

84

(1)

from Garbage

85

(6)

Anxiety's Prosody

91

(2)

Eternity's Taciturnity

93

(1)

Boon

94

(1)

Continuity

95

(1)

from Glare

95

(12)

Shot Glass

107

(2)

Birthday Poem to My Wife

109

(1)

A Few Acres of Shiny Water

110

(1)

In View of the Fact

111

(2)

Speaking

113

(1)

Frumpy Cronies

113

(2)

Shuffled Marbles

115

(1)

Don't Rush on My Account

116

(1)

Run Ragged

117

(2)

``When the bubbles of nothingness rise''

119

(4)

Biographical Note

123

(2)

Note on the Texts

125

(2)

Index of Titles and First Lines

127

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