| Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems Contributor(s): Ammons, A. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393328953 ISBN-13: 9780393328950 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: "No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."--Harold Bloom "Bosh and Flapdoodle" is A. R. Ammons's last completed collection of poetry. Written over a six-week period, the book offers a series of candid, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking ruminations on age, illness, and death, while still finding room for the poet's always penetrating observations of daily life and natural events. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.06" W x 7.94" (0.46 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bosh and Flapdoodle is A. R. Ammons's last completed collection of poetry. Written over a six-week period, the book offers a series of candid, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking ruminations on age, illness, and death, while still finding room for the poet's always penetrating observations of daily life and natural events. |
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. |