Brink Road - Poems (Paperback, Revised)

With characteristic economy, A. R. Ammons writes that "Brink Road lies off NY 96 between Candor and Catatonk." The very name suggests that we are ever in transition from one state of mind to another always on the edge of revelation.

The more than 150 poems in Brink Road date from 1973 to the present, dealing with Ammons's concerns with language, mortality, and the forces underlying the natural world. With elegance, wit, and ruminative gravity, Brink Road is an important addition to one of the most enduring bodies of poetry of our time.

A. R. Ammons was Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry at Cornell University. He died in 2001. Among Ammons's numerous awards are two National Book awards in 1993 for Garbage and in 1973 for Collected Poems 1951-1971.