A.R. Ammons





A.R. Ammons

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

died
February 25, 2001

gender
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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.


Average rating: 4.12 · 986 ratings · 66 reviews · 32 distinct works
Garbage
4.06 of 5 stars 406 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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The Selected Poems
4.2 of 5 stars 420 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions
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Collected Poems: 1951-1971
4.48 of 5 stars 448 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions
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Tape for the Turn of the Year
4.31 of 5 stars 431 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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Sphere: The Form of a Motion
4.08 of 5 stars 408 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1995
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The Really Short Poems of A...
4.12 of 5 stars 412 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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Glare
3.95 of 5 stars 395 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Brink Road: Poems
4.08 of 5 stars 408 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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A Coast of Trees: Poems
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Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems
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4.38 of 5 stars 438 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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More books by A.R. Ammons…
“What destruction have I been blessed by?”
A.R. Ammons

“Things go away to return, brightened for the passage”
A.R. Ammons, Sphere: The Form of a Motion

“One can't
have it

both ways
and both

ways is
the only

way I
want it.”
A.R. Ammons

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