The Complete Poems of A R Ammons, Volume 1 by A R Ammons -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Contents Preface Introduction by Helen Vendler Finishing Up Ommateum with Doxology (1955)

So I Said I Am Ezra The Sap Is Gone Out of the Trees In Strasbourg in 1349 I Broke a Sheaf of Light Some Months Ago I Went Out to the Sun At Dawn in 1098 The Whaleboat Struck Turning a Moment to Say So Long Turning Dying in a Mirthful Place When Rahman Rides With Ropes of Hemp My Dice Are Crystal Having Been Interstellar Coming to Sumer I Assume the World Is Curious About Me I Struck a Diminished Seventh Gilgamesh Was Very Lascivious When I Set Fire to the Reed Patch The Grass Miracles I Came in a Dark Woods Upon A Treeful of Cleavage Flared Branching [Behind the I] One Composing In the Wind My Rescue Is [I should have stayed longer idle] A Crippled Angel Dropping Eyelids Among the Aerial Ash I Came Upon a Plateau Doxology

Expressions of Sea Level (1964)

Raft Hymn (“I know if I find you I will have to leave the earth . . .”) Risks and Possibilities Terrain Nelly Myers Bridge Requiem Guide Expressions of Sea Level Unsaid Mechanism Batsto Mansion Close-Up Mountain Liar Prospecting Jersey Cedars Hardweed Path Going Bourn Grassy Sound Silver Concentrations River Motion for Motion Identity What This Mode of Motion Said Still The Golden Mean Nucleus

Corsons Inlet (1965)

Visit Moment Winter Scene Corsons Inlet Dunes Street Song Lines Coon Song Portrait Jungle Knot Dark Song Resort Upright Catalyst Loss World Butterflyweed Configurations Glass Morning Glory The Strait Spindle The Yucca Moth Anxiety Four Motions for the Pea Vines Hymn II (“So when the year had come full round . . .”) Hymn III (“In the hour of extreme // importance . . .”) Open Epiphany Prodigal Motion The Misfit The Watch Libation The Wide Land Thaw Whose Timeless Reach Ritual for Eating the World Driving Through March Song Gravelly Run

Tape for the Turn of the Year (1965)

6 Dec: (“today I / decided to write / a long / thin / poem . . .”) 7 Dec: (“today / I feel a bit different . . .”) 8 Dec: (“the way I could tell / today / that yesterday is dead . . .”) 9 Dec: (“sunny again: // last night a plane . . .”) 10 Dec: (“sunshine & shade / alternate at 32 . . .”) 11 Dec: (“they changed the forecast / today . . .”) 12 Dec: (“clouds came in soon after / dark last night . . .”) 13 Dec: (“my book came today, Friday / the 13th . . .”) 14 Dec: (“today / came in an / opposite way / of rain turning into snow . . .”) 15 Dec: (“my poem went for a ride / today . . .”) 16 Dec: (“first I heard / on the radio this morning / it was / 19 degrees . . .”) 17 Dec: (“Sisyphus / struggling / with his / immortal / rock . . .”) 18 Dec: (“today / broke as if under water . . .”) 19 Dec: (“this ole world could be / one . . .”) 20 Dec: (“today is cold: hit / ten last night: / and it not winter / yet . . .”) 21 Dec: (“the jay was out / before sunrise / wheeling & dealing . . .”) 22 Dec: (“we lost our mule Kate in / the fall / to a chattel mortgage . . .”) 23 Dec: (“I was thinking when I woke / up . . .”) 26 Dec: (“today is bright, warm . . .”) 27 Dec: (“today is / cloudy / in several ways . . .”) 28 Dec: (“today / is dim / again . . .”) 30 Dec: (“today is 19 & / sunny . . .”) 31 Dec: (“today the dry burn in / my nose of a cold / coming on . . .”) 1 Jan: (“raining: / at the borderline & / promise / of snow . . .”) 2 Jan: (“today / feels above freezing & is / sunshiny . . .”) 3 Jan: (“today is warm & sunny: / may go up to 50 . . .”) 4 Jan: (“3:20 pm: today is near- / ly shot aready . . .”) 5 Jan: (“today is sunny & it may / be warm again . . .”) 6 Jan: (“today is splennid again . . .”) 7 Jan: (“today is rainy . . .”) 8 Jan: (“today is sunny & warming . . .”) 9 Jan: (“today ben / der clouds . . .”) 10 Jan: (“today is windy as March / & sunny . . .”)

Northfield Poems (1966)

Kind Height Joshua Tree Reflective Landscape with Figures The Constant Contingency One:Many Halfway Interference Saliences Trap The Foot-Washing Recovery Two Motions Composing Ithaca, N.Y. Consignee February Beach Self-Portrait Passage Peak Zone Muse Sitting Down, Looking Up Belief Song Orientale Mays Landing Sphere First Carolina Said-Song Second Carolina Said-Song Discoverer A Symmetry of Thought Holding On Uh, Philosophy The Numbers Empty Unbroken Fall The Wind Coming Down From Interval Way to Go

Uplands (1970)

Snow Log Upland Periphery Clarity Classic Conserving the Magnitude of Uselessness If Anything Will Level with You Water Will The Unifying Principle Runoff Transaction Then One Further On Hope’s Okay Life in the Boondocks Spiel Guitar Recitativos Laser Virtu Choice Body Politic Apologia pro Vita Sua Offset Mountain Talk Impulse Needs Help Love Song (“Like the hills under dusk . . .”) Love Song (2) (“Rings of birch bark . . .”) Mule Song Script Holly Small Song Possibility Along a Line of Difference Cascadilla Falls Summer Session

Briefings: Poems Small and Easy (1971)

Center Mechanics Up After Yesterday Event High & Low Peracute Lucidity Increment Bees Stopped Storm Two Possibilities Medicine for Tight Spots Brooks & Other Notions Cougar This Black Rich Country Attention Return This Bright Day Look for My White Self Undersea Auto Mobile Wagons September Drift Civics He Held Radical Light Locus Circles Working Still Tooling Up Father Sumerian Hippie Hop Garden Hymn IV (“I hold you responsible . . .”) The Mark Loft Poetics Working with Tools Doubling the Nerve Making Dominion (“I said / Mr. Schafer . . .”) Round Tight The Woodsroad WCW Saying Looking Over the Acreage Gain Off Treaties Convergence Project North Jersey Ship Play Spinejacking Shore Fog Meteorology Exotic Hosts Crevice Transducer Mean Banking Elegy for a Jet Pilot Countering The Quince Bush Square Autumn Song Early Morning in Early April Reversal The Confirmers Involved Admission Mission Cut the Grass The Limit Concerning the Exclusions of the Object The Makers Levitation Medium Transfer Monday Pluralist Here & Now The Run-Through The Put-Down Come On The City Limits

Previously Uncollected Poems from Collected Poems 1951–1971 (1972)

The Pieces of My Voice Chaos Staggered Up the Hill Eolith Hymn V (“Assure us you side with order . . .”) Spring Song Come Prima Terminus Back Country Christmas Eve Communication The Whole Half Bay Bank Money Fall Creek Utensil The Fall April Lion::Mouse Breaks Heat Definitions Path Mediation Snow Whirl Reward Timing Trouble Making Trouble Rome Zoo Alternatives Positions Reassessing Renovating Devising Emplacement Touching Down Spring Coming Ocean City Chasm Bearing Mercy Tossup Plexus Three Miss Celestial Correction Mirrorment Coming To Even Windy Trees Photosynthesis Making Waves Clearing The Account Winter Saint The Imagined Land The King of Ice Village, Town, City—Highway, Road, Path Lonely Splendor The Swan Ritual He Said One More Time Drought Image Equinox Russet Gold Essay on Poetics Plunder Triphammer Bridge Lollapalooza: 22 February Satyr Formalist Late Romantic Spaceship Cleavage Schooling Space Travel High Surreal Sharp Lookout Right On Rectitude Object Ground Tide Translating Sorting The Next Day Extremes and Moderations Mid-August Clearing the Dark Symbiosis Viable Precursors Lonesome Valley Delaware Water Gap Day Staking Claim The Eternal City The Shoreless Tide Grace Abounding Phase Hibernaculum Eyesight Left The Arc Inside and Out

Sphere: The Form of a Motion (1974)

For Harold Bloom Sphere: The Form of a Motion

Diversifications (1975)

Transcendence Insouciance Narrows Salt Flats Full Uppermost Lightning The Marriage Self-Portraits Double Exposure Currencies Bonus Emerson Meeting the Opposition Appearances Measure Delight The Stemless Flower Imperialist Poem Imago Light Orders History Self-Projection Outside-the-Household Hint Metaphysic Tussock The Make Juice Terminations Fundamental Constant Making It Scope Weight Ballad Three Travelogues Sight Unseen Facing Glass Globe Separations Circling Fix Weather Coward Crying Out Certainty The Flaw Triplet Design Rocking Ars Poetica Course Discourse Obtrusion Louise 80-Proof Having to Do with Birth Limp Lump Mind Attenuations Turning Swipe Paradise Satisfaction The Unmirroring Peak Pray Without Ceasing

The Snow Poems (1977)

Words of Comfort One Must Recall as One Mourns the Dead Things Change, the Shit Shifts My Here I Sit, Fifty in the My Father Used to Bring Banana Have You Seen the Severe Waters Early October Terror of Ivy, a Winding) The Hieroglyphic Gathered, the Books Your Full-Service Mover, Madam When in Early The Arc There! the Light of Human Reason! Hard Lard Hard Fist 8:45 A.M.—Doorbell Rings: Wife Shall Will Be Used Properly or Will Shall No Tirement Like Retirement Light Falls Shadow and Beam through the Limbo Mist Curtains Lower and Dissolve The Snow Is Fine-Sightless Today the Ground The Hen Pheasants Streak Out of the Dawn Clear If You Were Standing under the Elm and In the Old Forecast for Today (Winter’s Firstday) I Come in from the Snowy World Poetry Is the Smallest Christmas Eve Morning Analysis Mines and Leaves to Heal Snowed Last Night a Lot but Warmed Up Those in Ledge Fright Seek But If the Way Will The Sun Climbs Daily Higher A Seventeen Morning & The First Morning in a Few This Is Quilted Spreads Dung Ball, Round Graveyard I See Downhill a Patch The Stomach Is Quite My Neighbor Shakes Feed along Nature As Waterfalls The Wind Picks Up Slick Cold Didn’t Keep the Stuff Teeth Out When I Think of “the Poet You Can’t Get It Right The Perfect Journey Is Snow of the [here a month of snow] The Prescriptive Stalls As After the Dissolve A Sift, Sprinkling, or Veil Structureless Rage, Perhaps Tell What Will Not Tell Direct Spread It Thin Dark Day, Warm and Windy Like Fifty A 41 Morning, Still Cloudy Produce and Fuctifry I Look Up Guff and Find the First One at One with His Desire Dull Lull The Temperature Rose 15 Degrees over As for Fame I’ve Had It When One Is a Child One Lives Cloud Strays Rounded Up It’s Half an Hour Later Before This Poem Concerns The Word Cries Out I Woke Up at 6 and It Was A Flock of My Days You Can’t Imitate Spring’s Old Hat Is Older The Temperature Fell You Can Cunit It’s a Wonder the Body Today Was Like Vomiting It’s April 1 I’m Unwilling The Sky Clabbered Up with A Single Fact It Does Not Rain in One Loves The Miltonic (Miltownic) Isn’t My Father Used to Tell of an Arm’s Length Renders One I’m the Type Snow Showed a Full Range No Matter It’s So Dry the Brook, Down Today Will Beat Anything Sight Can Go Quickly, Aerial, Where These Days Most The Cardinal, Slanted Watershed One Desires the Cutting I Wonder if Pagan Is Rage Spells More of My Words Right On This Day Noteworthily Warm Some Nights I Go Out to Piss My Structure Is, Like the You Think of the Sun That It Snow It Snowed All Night Snow Drip Drip Some Fluffy, Long-Swaggly Catkins My Father, I Hollow for You I Knew I Cannot Re-wind the Brook Considering the Variety Variable Cloudiness Windy On Walks I Go a Long Way along One Trains Hard for Will Firinger Be Kissed: Will If Walking through Birdy Trees They Say It Snowed

Highgate Road (1977)

Shuffling Enterprise For Louise and Tom Gossett Significances Release Modality Meanings Handle Speechlessness Gardening Blue Skies Camels Immediacy Recording Early Woods Enough North Street Reading One Thing and Another Self For Doyle Fosso Generation Gap Natives Catch Lofty Famine Imaginary Number Fortitude Ghosts Soaker

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