The Snow Poems - Softcover

Ammons, A. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039304467X ISBN 13: 9780393044676

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977

Synopsis

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 for Poetry: in 1977, he received and award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The Snow Poems, Ammons's twelfth book, is a major achievement by a major American Poet.

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About the Author

A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), author of many books of poetry, won a Bollingen Prize; two National Book Awards; a National Book Critics Circle Award; a Library of Congress Prize for Poetry; a Wallace Stevens Award; and a Robert Frost Medal. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught at Cornell University.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039304467X
• ISBN 13: 9780393044676
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306