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Overview
Presenting the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 1981 to Ammons's A Coast of Trees Richard Locke, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, said, in part: "In the thirty years since A. R. Ammons published his first poems, he has fashioned a body of work that achieves a rare amplitude, specific gravity, and high seriousness. He is a poet of the American Sublime--a nature poet, as we say--standing in the tradition of Wordsworth, Emerson, and Whitman. Amidst the hue and cry of contemporary poetical factions, his work pursues its own integrity: clear, unblinking in its self-knowledge, remarkable for its radiant density of argument and feeling."
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- ISBN-13: 9780393301045
- ISBN-10: 0393301044
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: April 1983
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.18 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.23 pounds
- Page Count: 74
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