The Snow Poems
by A.R. Ammons
published
1977
by W. W. Norton & Company
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Hardcover, 292 pages
isbn
039304467X
(isbn13: 9780393044676)
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Read in September, 2008
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This is one of those books where I spent a lot of the time reading it very jealous that I did not write it myself. Ammons seems preoccupied with the weather, sure, but there is more here. This is a real in depth look at reality, truth, contradictions which are so contradictory that they become similar, and what it means to be human.
These poems are not glamorous, nor are they particularly sentimental (a triumphant feat, given that so many of them are entrenched in the natural world), and ...more
These poems are not glamorous, nor are they particularly sentimental (a triumphant feat, given that so many of them are entrenched in the natural world), and ...more
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Read in March, 2001
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I am mesmerized somehow by his snow poems, though I do not know why. Maybe it is the snow, but I think something much deeper than that.
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