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"American modernism and whatever has followed it are heavy with long poems which attempt to contain the fragmentary, but lacking integration, are archives at best, and more often cluttered drawers. In the three astonishing long works in Collected Poems ('Extremes And Moderations,' 'Essay on Poetics' with its poems within a poem, and 'Hibernaculum'), we see how no poet is so alive to the processes linking the one and the many, the part and the whole, the high and the low, as Ammons is."A. R. Ammons is the author of 'Collected Poems, 1951-1971', published 2001 under ISBN 9780393321920 and ISBN 0393321924.
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