A Coast of Trees

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by A.R. Ammons

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published December 2002, 128 pages, paper

ISBN 0393324109

Available again (F02)

This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.

"A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is an achievement fully comparable to his Uplands and Briefings. Among the poems likely to assume a permanent place in the Ammonsian (and American) canon are the majestic title lyric and 'Swells,' 'Easter Morning,' 'Keepsake,' 'Givings,' and 'Persistences.' Again Ammons has confirmed his vital continuities with the central Whitmanian tradition of our poetry, and his crucial place in that panoply."--Harold Bloom