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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

  • Worldly Hopes: Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 2001

    "A maker who would have delighted Whitman and Emerson."—Harold Bloom
  • Collected Poems, 1951-1971

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 2001

    A reissue of a body of work spanning two decades from one of our most treasured poets.
  • Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 2007

    "No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."—Harold Bloom
  • Collected Poems, 1951-1971

    A. R. Ammons

    E Book

    A reissue of a body of work spanning two decades from one of our most treasured poets.
  • Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    E Book, 2019

    "No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."—Harold Bloom
  • Ommateum: With Doxology: Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    E Book, 2019

    “Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry.”—John Ashbery
  • Garbage: A Poem

    A. R. Ammons

    E Book, 2002

    Winner of the National Book Award.
  • Uplands: New Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 1970

    This book collects many of the poems that A. R. Ammons wrote between 1964 and 1970. The poems here include brief lyrics and such longer works as "Summer Session 1968" and "Guitar Recicativos."
  • Corsons Inlet: A Book of Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Hardback, 1975

    Corson's Inlet is A. R. Ammons's third book of poems.
  • Lake Effect Country: Poems

    A. R. Ammons

    Paperback, 1984

    Lake Effect Country is the newest collection by the poet whom the critic Josephine Jacobsen has described as "a formidable and outstandingly original contributor to the best of American poetry."