Description: "This is the most surprising formal invention of a major innovator, is the fullest vision Ammons gives us of his enormous creative enterprise. Among the major descendents of Whitman's Song of Myself, Tape occupies an essential imaginative space, showing us much about what is essential in the American poetic imagination." --Harold Bloom
Brief description: A. R. Ammons (1926-2001), author of many books of poetry, won a Bollingen Prize; two National Book Awards; a National Book Critics Circle Award; a Library of Congress Prize for Poetry; a Wallace Stevens Award; and a Robert Frost Medal. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught at Cornell University.