Consisting of some of his best early work, including such strikingly inventive poems as Jungle Knot,
Coon Song,
Four Motions for the Pea Vines, and the title piece, this volume provides incontestable evidence of Ammons’s rapid early growth as a poet, of his ever-broadening range and deepening perception. Corsons Inlet, like Ammons’s Tape for the Turn of the Year, shows clearly his remarkable originality and, more important, his lavish and unique poetic gifts.