num_pages: 80
description: "There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me."―Donald Davie, New York Review of Books Sphere is the second of A. R. Ammons's long poems―following Tape for the Turn of the Year and preceding Garbage ―that mark him as a master of this particular form. The sphere in question is the earth itself, and Ammons's wonderfully stocked mind roams globally, ruminating on subjects that range from galaxies to gas stations. It is a remarkable achievement, comparable in importance to Wallace Stevens's Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction .
language: English
title: Sphere: The Form of a Motion
titlecomplete: Sphere: The Form of a Motion (Sara F. Yoseloff Memorial Publications)
genres: American, Poetry
ratings_count: 122
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company