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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

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.

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

  • Diversifications: Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 1975

    Diversifications is a collection of shorter poems by the poet whose Collected Poems won the National Book Award.
  • Northfield Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 2012

    Mr. Ammons' poetry has appeared in such publications as the Hudson Review, The Nation (for which he was at one time poetry editor), the New York Times, Poetry, and the Partisan Review.
  • The Snow Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 1977

    The Snow Poems is the most recent book of poetry by an author who has been called "perhaps the most imaginative, innovative poet writing today."
  • Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 2008

    “Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry.”—John Ashbery
  • The Selected Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Expanded Edition, Paperback, 1987

    A. R. Ammons's selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier version, "makes available the very best of him."
  • Sumerian Vistas: Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 1987

    Ammons's poetic genius has always been at home in forms ranging from brief lyrics to longer works.
  • Tape for the Turn of the Year

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 1995

  • Sphere: The Form of a Motion

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 2012

    "There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me."—Donald Davie, New York Review of Books
  • Brink Road: Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 1997

    "No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."—Harold Bloom
  • Glare

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 1998

    "Glare is a high-energy, relentlessly self-aware collision with the whole of life."—Albert Mobilio, Salon