TheComplete Poems of A. R. Ammons...TheComplete Poems of A. R. Ammons Volume 1: 1955‐1977...
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“I’ve brought / you everything”:
The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons
Volume 1: 1955‐1977and Volume 2: 1978‐2005
(W. W. Norton, 2017)
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Bad GoodsAll mylife I've
been savingmyself for
something; Iwdn't go
here, do that: hello, death,
I've broughtyou everything.
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The Complete Poems . . .
gathers the 966 poems from his 22 books,
plus 103 he saw into publication but left uncollected in his books,
as well as 24 seen into publication by colleagues and collaborators over the decade following his death.
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The poems range in length from one line, as in . . .
COWARD
Bravery runs in my family.
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and . . .
THE STORY
Oblivion keeps the caterpillar bright.
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. . . to five poems so long they were published as separate books:
Tape for the Turn of the Year (7035 lines)
Sphere: The Form of a Motion (1860 lines)
The Snow Poems (7783 lines)
Garbage (2217 lines)
Glare (5142 lines)
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. . . for a total of 55,257 linesin the two volumes combined.
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The Complete Poems also . . .
gives poems’ dates of first composition, when Ammons recorded those;
tracks variants in reprintings and aims to establish authoritative texts of the poems;
offers endnotes detailing the poems’ publication and textual histories, and also annotating some allusions and other references.
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