The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons

About this book

Few if any collections of poems by a major poet have ever demonstrated more forcefully than this one that brevity is the soul of wit. The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons brings together some 160 short poems spanning Ammons whole career ranging from mordantly funny paradoxes to intensely compressed instants of lyric perception. Each one demonstrates the transcendent qualities of intellect and craft that have made A.R. Ammons among the most honoured American poets today. They comprise a uniquely entertaining volume that makes his genius accessible to a new generation of readers. "Ammons originality does not reside only in the singular awareness of science that informs much of his work...Nobody elses poems manage to sound quite so genuine and unforced as they compress observation into metaphor identifying the poets self with what he sees".