“Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry.â€â€•John Ashbery
This reissue of A. R. Ammons’s debut, published five decades ago in a rare edition, with its penetrating “Whitmanian chants . . . holds in it the mystery of his gradual development into a major American poet, who will be read by the most discerning until the last syllable of recorded time†(Harold Bloom).
