Amers () is a collection of poetry by French writer Saint-John Perse, published in 1957. Perse won the Nobel Prize in Literature three years later.
The title means "sea marks" (points used to navigate at sea, both manmade and natural); it possibly puns on the French amer(s), "bitter", perhaps meaning "briny" here, and has echoes of mer, "sea".Little, Roger. "The Image of the Threshold in the Poetry of Saint-John Perse." The Modern Language Review 64, no. 4 (1969): 777-92. Accessed February 4, 2020. doi:10.2307/3723920.
Amers was ranked #97 in Le Mondes 100 Books of the Century.
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