Lake Effect Country Poems Author:A. R. Ammons Lake Effect Country is the 1983 collection by A. R. Ammons, the poet whom the critic Josephine Jacobsen has described as "a formidable and outstandingly original contributor to the best of American poetry." — Amidst the hue and cry of contemporary poetical factions, his work pursues its own integrity: clear, unblinking in its self-knowledge, rema... more »rkable for its radiant density of argument and feeling.« less