Download or read book Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems written by A. R. Ammons and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry.”—John Ashbery This reissue of A. R. Ammons’s debut, published five decades ago in a rare edition, with its penetrating “Whitmanian chants . . . holds in it the mystery of his gradual development into a major American poet, who will be read by the most discerning until the last syllable of recorded time” (Harold Bloom).