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A.R. Ammons

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born

February 18, 1926 in Whiteville, North Carolina, The United States

died

February 25, 2001

gender

male

genre

Poetry

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Archie Randolph Ammons was born outside Whiteville, North Carolina, on February 18, 1926. He started writing poetry aboard a U. S. Navy destroyer escort in the South Pacific. After completing service in World War II, he attended Wake Forest University and the University of California at Berkeley.

His honors included the Academy's Wallace Stevens Award, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He lived in Ithaca, New York, where he was Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry at Cornell University until his retirement in 1998. Ammons died on February 25, 2001.

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Books by A.R. Ammons

Average rating: 4.12 · 986 ratings · 66 reviews · 32 distinct works

	Garbage 406 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Selected Poems 420 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Collected Poems: 1951-1971 448 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tape for the Turn of the Year 431 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sphere: The Form of a Motion 408 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons 412 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Glare 395 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Brink Road: Poems 408 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Coast of Trees: Poems 406 avg rating — 36 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems by A.R. Ammons, Roger Gilbert (Preface by) 438 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating: