Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry. -John Ashbery

Mr. Ammons’ poetry has appeared in such publications as the Hudson Review, The Nation (for which he was at one time poetry editor), the New York Times, Poetry, and the…

This collection of 160 short poems, demonstrating that brevity is indeed the soul of wit, spans Ammon’s whole career, ranging from mordantly funny paradoxes to intensely compressed instants of lyric…

Meditative, comic, emotionally wrenching, steeped in both the natural world and the life of the mind, the poetry of A. R. Ammons is at once cosmic in scope and intimate…

What does it mean to understand something? What types of understanding can be distinguished? Is understanding always provided by explanations? And how is it related to knowledge? Such questions have…