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(1926-2001) Poet. Archie Randolph Ammons was the author of many collections of poetry. Ammons was a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Full Name

A R Ammons

Locations

Tompkins

Author's Timeline


1926

BIRTH

Archie Randolph Ammons was born near Whiteville, North Carolina in 1926.

1955

LITWORK

Ommateum with Doxology


Poetry collection.

1964

OTHER

Ammons was a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca from 1964 to 1971.

1964

LITWORK

Expressions of Sea Level


Poetry collection.

1965

LITWORK

Tape for the Turn of the Year

1972

LITWORK

Collected Poems: 1951-1971


Collection of poetry which won the National Book Award in 1972.

1974

LITWORK

Sphere


Collection of poetry and winner of the Bollingen Prize in 1974.

1977

LITWORK

The Selected Poems: 1951-1977


Collection of poetry.

1981

LITWORK

A Coast of Trees


Collection of poetry and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 1981.

1993

LITWORK

Garbage


Collection of poetry and winner of the National Book Award and the Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry in 1993.

1996

LITWORK

Glare

2001

DEATH

A. R. Ammons died in Ithaca, New York, in 2001.

2005

LITWORK

Bosh and Flapdoodle


Poetry collection published posthumously.

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