Steven P Schneider's careful examination of AR Ammons's poetry surveys the whole range of the great poet's work, which now spans four decades. Ammons, more than any other poet, exploits the way of science for an acutely lucid view of life.
Readers ought to feel grateful.
I know I do. In associating the theory of optics he finds at work in Ammons's project with the enlightenment premises of literary transcendentalism. Steven Schneider has transformed our habitual angle of vision. 2000 Several of the poems particularly stand out.