A. R. Ammons 
Lake Effect Country: Poems [EPUB ebook] 

Lake Effect Country is the newest collection by the poet whom the critic Josephine Jacobsen has described as ‘a formidable and outstandingly original contributor to the best of American poetry.’

Presenting the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 1981 to Ammons’s
A Coast of Trees Richard Locke, editor-in-chief of
Vanity Fair, said, in part: ‘In the thirty years since A. R. Ammons published his first poems, he has fashioned a body of work that achieves a rare amplitude, specific gravity, and high seriousness. He is a poet of the American Sublime—a nature poet, as we say—standing in the tradition of Wordsworth, Emerson, and Whitman. Amidst the hue and cry of contemporary poetical factions, his work pursues its own integrity: clear, unblinking in its self-knowledge, remarkable for its radiant density of argument and feeling.’

Circa l’autore

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 Mac Arthur Foundations.