`The Complete Poems` of A.R. Ammons amount to a profound experience of empathy
(LA Times Dodgers)

A.R. Ammons (1926-2001) was one of the great curmudgeons in poetry - he actually made an aesthetic out of a kind of reticent fuddy-duddiness spiked with a whole bunch of other moods and modes, from mischief to randiness. But it´s as if his willful resistance to some things makes sure there´s room...