\'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