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A. R. Ammons

A. R. Ammons’s (1926–2001) was a two-time winner of the National Book Award and the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award. His many additional honors include the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.

A. R. Ammons

Awards

Winner — Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, 1994

Winner — National Book Award, 1993

Winner — National Book Award, 1973

Winner — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1981

Books by A. R. Ammons

The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons
A. R. Ammons
Paperback, 1992
The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 1955-1977
A. R. Ammons, Robert M. West, Helen Vendler
Hardback, 2017
“One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler
The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 2 1978-2005
A. R. Ammons, Robert M. West, Helen Vendler
Hardback, 2017
“One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler
The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 2 1978-2005
A. R. Ammons, Robert M. West, Helen Vendler
E Book, 2018
“One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler
The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 1955-1977
A. R. Ammons, Robert M. West, Helen Vendler
E Book, 2018
“One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler
A Coast of Trees
A. R. Ammons
Paperback, 2003
This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.
A Coast of Trees
A. R. Ammons
E Book, 2019
This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.
Garbage: A Poem
A. R. Ammons
Paperback, 2003
Winner of the National Book Award.
Selected Longer Poems
A. R. Ammons
Paperback, 1980
Briefings: Poems Small and Easy
A. R. Ammons
Paperback, 1971
Briefings brings together more than eighty short lyrics that, as Harold Bloom writes, "maintain an utterly consistent purity of detached yet radiant vision."