Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems

Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry. 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).