Uplands: New Poems

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The critic Harold Bloom writes, With the publication of his Selected Poems (1968), soon after turning forty, A. R. Ammons quietly demonstrated a unique and central position in recent American poetry… . Recognition, as is always the case with a poetry difficult and central, has come slowly, but critics now begin to see in Ammons what he is: the maker of a body of poetry that fulfills Emerson’s prophecy by addressing itself to life ‘with sufficient plainness and with sufficient profoundness.