Considering the Radiance Essays on the Poetry of A. R. Ammons [Hardcover]

This intimate collection of essays addressed to the common reader pays tribute to one of the twentieth centurys major poets. Encompassing every phase of A. R. Ammonss oeuvre, from his beginnings in the 1950s to his late masterpieces,A. R. Ammons has exploded into the company of American poets that includes Whitman and Emerson and articulates the major impulse of the national expression: the paradox of poetry as process and yet impediment to process.