A. R. Ammons

Bosh and Flapdoodle

“No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons.”—Harold Bloom

Bosh and Flapdoodle is A. R. Ammons’s final completed collection of poetry.

“[A] vernacular American Ovid, an irreverent master of metamorphosis.”—Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review

“His poems, framed in ordinary language and couched in stately couplets, are twisty and testy, bawdy and funny.”—Time