Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / A.R. Ammons.

Author

Ammons, A. R., 1926-2001

Publication

• Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1968.
• ©1968

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP

Description

xi, 173 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Contents

So I said I am Ezra -- The sap is gone out of the trees -- I went out to the sun -- The whaleboat struck -- Turning a moment to say so long -- Dying in a mirthful place -- With ropes of hemp -- Doxology -- Having been interstellar -- Coming to a summer -- I struck a diminishing seventh -- When I set fire to the reed patch -- A treeful of cleavage flared branching -- I set it my task -- A crippled angel -- I came upon a plateau -- Whose timeless reach -- Driving through -- Song -- Hymn -- Hymn II -- Hymn III -- The watch -- March song -- Ritual for eating the world -- The wide land -- Batsto -- Mountain liar -- Gravelly run -- Prospecting -- Joshua tree -- Thaw -- The wind coming down from -- Silver -- Hardweed path going -- Close-up -- Bourn -- Composing -- Orientale -- Mansion -- Prodigal -- Mechanism -- Guide -- The golden mean -- Risks and possibilities -- Terrain -- Bridge -- Coon song -- Unsaid -- Raft -- River -- Lines -- The strait -- Identity -- What this mode of motion said -- Nucleus -- Jungle knot -- The misfit -- Nelly Myers -- Motion for motion -- Visit -- Expressions of sea level -- Still -- The yucca moth -- The constant -- Motion -- Corsons inlet -- Saliences -- Dunes -- Moment -- Glass -- Configurations -- Reflective -- Butterflyweed -- Contingency -- Trap -- Halfway -- Landscape with figures -- Dark song -- World -- Portrait -- Winter scene -- Loss -- Recovery -- Interference -- Peak -- Passage -- Kind -- Height.

LCCN

68017302

OCLC

• ocm00227645
• 227645
• SCSB-2070406

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library