Worldly Hopes

by A. R. Ammons

Overview

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

In the poetry of A. R. Ammons, Helen Vendler has written, "the scientific world is beautifully in balance with the perceptual one." Originally published in 1982, this collection reminds us why Ammons must be read by all those who would understand our age and one of its most brilliant voices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393321852
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/17/2001
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	1870L (what's this?)

About the Author

A. R. Ammons’s (1926–2001) was a two-time winner of the National Book Award and the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award. His many additional honors include the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.

Table of Contents

	Room Conditioner	1
	Extravaganza	2
	Righting Wrongs	3
	Subsumption	4
	Immoderation	5
	Vines	6
	Extrication	7
	Spruce Woods	8
	I Went Back	9
	Snow Roost	10
	Shading Flight In	11
	Precious Weak Fields	12
	Night Chill	13
	Calling	14
	Reaction Rates	15
	Progress Report	16
	Lost & Found	17
	Epistemology	19
	The Role of Society in the Artist	21
	Scribbles	23
	Hermit Lark	25
	Shit List	27
	Limits	30
	Sizing	32
	Bride	33
	Rainy Morning	34
	The Scour	35
	Meditation	36
	Oblivion's Bloom	37
	Immortality	38
	Design	39
	Augmentations in Early March	40
	Working Differentials	41
	Winter Sanctuaries	42
	Cold Spell	43
	Planes	44
	Volitions	45
	Providence	46
	Going Without Saying	47
	Devastation	48
	Merchandise	49
	Pairing	50
	Rivulose	51

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