Worldly Hopes: Poems

"A maker who would have delighted Whitman and Emerson."—Harold BloomIn the poetry of A. R. Ammons, Helen Vendler has written, "the scientific world is beautifully in balance with the perceptual one." Originally published in 1982, this collection reminds us why Ammons must be read by all those who would understand our age and one of its most brilliant voices.