| Glare Contributor(s): Ammons, A. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 039331779X ISBN-13: 9780393317794 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: A superb long poem by the contemporary master of the form, "Glare" consists of two sections: "Strip" and "Scat Scan". The poem demonstrates, yet again, why A.R. Ammons's poetic voice is a national treasure: by turns cosmic, self-inflating, self "de"flating, eloquent, intimate, bawdy, comic, precise--and always unmistakably his own. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 96048506 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.51" W x 8.23" (0.83 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A superb long poem by the contemporary master of the form, Glare comprises two sections, Strip and Scat Scan. The poem demonstrates, yet again, why A. R. Ammons's poetic voice is a national treasure: by turns cosmic, self-inflating, self-deflating, eloquent, intimate, bawdy, comic, precise--and always unmistakably his own. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ammons, A. R.: - 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. |