A Coast of Trees

by A. R. Ammons

Overview

This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.

Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is an achievement fully comparable to his Uplands and Briefings. Among the poems likely to assume a permanent place in the Ammonsian (and American) canon are the majestic title lyric and 'Swells,' 'Easter Morning,' 'Keepsake,' 'Givings,' and 'Persistences.' Again Ammons has confirmed his vital continuities with the central Whitmanian tradition of our poetry, and his crucial place in that panoply."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393324105
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	12/17/2002
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	66
Sales rank:	502,998
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	1270L (what's this?)

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

[In Ammons's poetry] the scientific world is beautifully in balance with the perceptual one.

Helen Vendler

A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode.

Harold Bloom