Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems by A. R. Ammons chalk art From award-winning author Debby Thompson

From award-winning author Debby Thompson

which span the years from 1827 to his death in 1849

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it is an enduring embodiment of Anthony Bourdain's love for the whole world and a reminder of how to stack our priorities the next time we're able to follow in his footsteps

Told with all the warmth and whimsy of Burgess's stories

Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems by A. R. Ammons chalk art From award-winning author Debby ThompsonThis 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). "Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry." John Ashbery A. R. Ammons