A. R. Ammons

Glare

A superb long poem by the contemporary master of the form, Glare comprises two sections, "Strip" and "Scat Scan." The poem demonstrates, yet again, why A. R. Ammons's poetic voice is a national treasure: by turns cosmic, self-inflating, self-deflating, eloquent, intimate, bawdy, comic, precise—and always unmistakably his own.

"There is always something interesting and provocative about Ammons's observations and use of language."—Andrew Frisardi, Boston Globe

"Glare is A. R. Ammons at his most original and unrestrained. . . . Ammons at seventy is totally audacious.... Glare is high testimony."—Harold Bloom