Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems by A. R. Ammons chalk art it is an enduring embodiment

it is an enduring embodiment of Anthony Bourdain's love for the whole world and a reminder of how to stack our priorities the next time we're able to follow in his footsteps

who has "seen it all" and has much to say

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Told with all the warmth and whimsy of Burgess's stories

Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems by A. R. Ammons chalk art it is an enduring embodimentThis 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). "Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry." John Ashbery A. R. Ammons