AR Ammons essays reviewed

Or as Richard Howard puts it, in the book's bristling opening piece, "the shore, the beach, or the coastal creek is not a place but an event" for Ammons, and a spiritual one at that. Howard cites these quintessential lines from Ammons' 1965 masterpiece, "Corsons Inlet": "There are dunes of motion, / organizations of grass, white sandy paths of remembrance/ in the overall wandering of mirroring mind: / but the Overall is beyond me."