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A. R. Ammons (1926–2001)

Author of Garbage: A Poem

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About the Author

Archie Randolph Ammons, 1926 - Poet and teacher A. R. Ammons was born in North Carolina in 1926. He served his country during World War II aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer escort in the South Pacific, which is where he began writing poetry. After he returned from duty, he attended Wake Forest College, show more North Carolina and the University of California, Berkley. He began teaching at Cornell University in 1964 and, in 1971, became a Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry there. Ammons has authored nearly 30 books of poetry and some of those titles include "Garbage" (1993), which won the National Book Award and the Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; "A Coast of Trees" (1981), which received the national Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry; "Sphere" (1974), which received the Bollingen Prize; and "Collected Poems 1951-1971" (1972), which won the National Book Award. Other honors include the Academy's Tanning Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal and the Ruth Lilly Prize. He has also received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Archie Randolph Ammons died on February 25, 2001. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: A Ammons, A.R. Ammons, AMMONS A. R., A. A. Ammons, editor A.R. Ammons

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Works by A. R. Ammons

Garbage: A Poem (1993) 221 copies, 1 review
The Selected Poems (1977) 185 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Poetry 1994 (1994) — Editor — 175 copies, 1 review
Collected Poems 1951-1971 (1972) 126 copies, 1 review
Tape for the Turn of the Year (1965) 93 copies, 1 review
Sphere: The Form of a Motion (1974) 92 copies
A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems (2006) 82 copies
Glare (1997) 78 copies
Brink Road: Poems (1996) 68 copies, 1 review
The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons (1991) 58 copies, 1 review
Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems (2005) 52 copies, 1 review
A Coast of Trees (1981) 51 copies
Uplands: New Poems (1970) 38 copies
The Snow Poems (1977) 34 copies
The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 1955-1977 (2017) 30 copies, 1 review
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Associated Works

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 952 copies, 7 reviews
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Contributor — 781 copies, 3 reviews
Contemporary American Poetry (1962) — Contributor, some editions — 392 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Poetry 2000 (2000) — Contributor — 213 copies
The Art of Losing (2010) — Contributor — 211 copies, 21 reviews
The Best American Poetry 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 178 copies
The Best American Poetry 1997 (1997) — Contributor — 168 copies
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributor — 167 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Contributor — 164 copies
The Best American Poetry 1993 (1993) — Contributor — 130 copies, 1 review
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Contributor — 101 copies
The Best American Poetry 2018 (2018) — Contributor — 83 copies, 1 review
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016) — Contributor — 69 copies
The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On (1997) — Contributor — 61 copies
The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Contributor — 54 copies, 1 review
Poems of Our Moment (1968) — Contributor — 38 copies
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Contributor — 17 copies, 1 review
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Contributor — 14 copies
Poetry Magazine Vol. 189 No. 2, November 2006 (2006) — Author — 6 copies
Epitaphs for Lorine — Contributor — 6 copies
Truck 21, A 50th Birthday Celebration For Jonathan Williams — Contributor — 1 copy

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Collected Poems, 1951-1971 by A. R. Ammons
Too much. I need to get this copy back to the library. I want to either own this, or, preferably, start with a best-of.

I am enjoying what I'm reading. It's accessible (at least on a superficial level, to this reader who does have some experience w/poetry) and interesting. I did get to p. 6o, to 'Thaw.' I particularly liked 'A Sheaf of Light.'
 
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kswolff | Jun 16, 2019 |
The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 1955-1977 by A. R. Ammons
“The sheer heft of the two volumes only hints at the vast poetical output of Ammons, a variegated array of poeticules and epics, intimate confessions and scientific hymns, wordplay and wonderment.”

For the full review for both volumes click below:

https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/complete-poems-r-ammons
 
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kswolff | Jun 16, 2019 |
The Selected Poems (Expanded Edition) by A. R. Ammons
After reading this collection I will have to say I like Ammons' shorter poems best. This collection has more medium to long poems, some of which are also excellent, but his short poems are the best.
 
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