"Northwards" is an adventure story, and a story about a journey. It tells the story of Gray, a young man traveling from Florida to New York in an effort to figure out the complicated relationship with his dying father, ...

Previous critics of A.R. Ammons' work have located the poet in a “direct” line of descent from “the great originals of the American Romantic tradition, Emerson and Whitman.” I argue that, while I broadly agree with this ...