· The first titular poem, "Coast of Trees," is significant in many ways. At the outset, the poem reiterates Ammons's pet theme of one (coast) and many (trees). The paradoxical fact is that one is many and many is one. In this poem, Ammons confronts reality directly and reveals the inadequacy of linguistic means of apprehending bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. In A.R. Ammons. His later works—notably A Coast of Trees (), which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Sumerian Vistas ()—exhibit a mature command of imagery and ideas, balancing the scientific approach to the universe with a subjective, even romantic one. Garbage (), a book-length poem, earned Ammons his Read More. Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "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.
The following essay by Stephen Burt on A.R. Ammons, whose "A Coast of Trees" won the NBCC award in poetry, is part of the NBCC's "In Retrospect" series on Critical Mass, in which critics and writers revisit NBCC award winners and finalists from previous years. Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "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. Ammons offers his optimistic statement as an end to A Coast of Trees. "Persistences" depicts human endeavor, civilization, as ruins in the desert subject to the "theorem of the wind.".
Ammons offers his optimistic statement as an end to A Coast of Trees. “Persistences” depicts human endeavor, civilization, as ruins in the desert subject to the “theorem of the wind. Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "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.'. Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "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.
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