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  • The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons

    Volume 1 1955-1977

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    “One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler“So I said I am Ezra / and the wind whipped my throat / gaming for the sounds of my voice. . . .” So begins one of the most remarkable oeuvres in the history of American poetry. The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons, Volume I presents the first half of Archie Randolph Ammons’s long career, including the complete texts of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons

    Volume 2 1978-2005

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    An essential volume from “a master maker” (Richard Howard).“If you will sit with me in the light // of speech, I will sit with you. . . .” Readers who accept that invitation will find themselves in extraordinary company. The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons, Volume II presents the second half of Archie Randolph Ammons’s long career, including the complete texts of his two book-length poems from that ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Consider the Radiance

    The New Selected Poems of A. R. Ammons

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    An essential new selection of poems from one of the greatest American poets.Among A. R. Ammons’s most devout readers—and lifelong friends—was critic Harold Bloom, who declared Ammons’s Collected Poems “the most distinguished book of American verse since the publication of Wallace Stevens’s Collected Poems in 1955.” This new compendium of work by a major American poet, selected and with an ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Collected Poems, 1951-1971

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    A reissue of a body of work spanning two decades from one of our most treasured poets."It will seem increasingly to many attentive readers that this volume—the most distinguished book of American verse, in my judgment, since the publication of Wallace Stevens's Collected Poems in 1955—marks the permanent establishment of a major visionary poet."—Harold Bloom "No mere gathering of poems, this ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Coast of Trees

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    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) ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Amish

    by Ammon Monroe Aurand, Jr ...
    With 14 photographs. A pamphlet on the Amish, delving into their mysterious and somewhat quaint ways. Subjects include their dress, their marriage and funeral traditions, where a woman's place is (in the home or fields, apparently), their religious ceremonies and some other stuff. The last chapter includes 14 photographs with the author's 'amusing' captions placed underneath. ... Read more

    $7.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Work Useful to Religion and the Humanities

    A History of the Comparative Method in the Study of Religion from Las Casas to Tylor

    by Laura Ammon ...
    Series Book 1 - Pickwick Studies in the History of Religions
    In many ways, the method of comparison in the study of religion is connected to European expansion and empire building. This work explores the early modern origins of the comparative method for the cross-cultural study of religion, beginning with its roots in the earliest missionary contact in the Spanish conquest and concluding with the Victorian anthropologists of the British Empire. Ammon ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Selected Poems

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    A. R. Ammons's selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier version, "makes available the very best of him."To the "visions of clarity and terror" in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his three books published since. The resulting collection is the essential starting place for new readers, the quarry for those familiar with his work. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Amish (Illustrated)

    by Ammon Monroe Aurand Jr. ...
    (The author is pleased to print a letter which he received from one of the best informed and best known members of the Amish sect in America. His letter was unsolicited, and since it bears on a subject which we discussed in our writings, we thought the reader would like to sense what our Amish friend has to say after reading the pamphlet. We are glad to make the note he suggested. If the rest of ... Read more

    $2.52 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Snow Poems

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    The Snow Poems is the most recent book of poetry by an author who has been called "perhaps the most imaginative, innovative poet writing today."Critics and readers alike recognize Ammons's achievements: in 1973, his Collected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry; in 1975, his long poem Sphere: The Form of a Motion was nominated for the National Book Award and received the Bollingen Prize ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Selected Longer Poems

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    Readers already familiar with Ammons’s longer mode in other books will welcome this new collection, while those familiar only with the shorter poems will find their appreciation of his work both deepened and heightened. The Selected Poems: 1951-1977 was described by one critic as “an indispensable book”; Selected Longer Poems is an indispensable companion to it.The distinguished poet A. R. Ammons ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Brink Road

    Poems

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    "No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."—Harold BloomWith characteristic economy, A. R. Ammons writes that "Brink Road lies off NY 96 between Candor and Catatonk." The very name suggests that we are ever in transition from one state of mind to another always on the edge of revelation.The more than 150 poems in Brink Road date from 1973 to the present, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD