Ammons, A.R.

Ammons, A.R.

▪ American poet
in full  Archie Randolph Ammons  
born February 18, 1926, Whiteville, North Carolina, U.S.
died February 25, 2001, Ithaca, New York

      American poet who was one of the leading late 20th-century exponents of the Transcendentalist tradition.

      A 1949 graduate of Wake Forest College (now University), Ammons worked as an elementary school principal and as a glass company executive before turning his full attention to literature. From 1964 to 1998 he taught creative writing at Cornell University. In his first collection of poems, Ommateum: With Doxology (1955), Ammons wrote about nature and the self, themes that had preoccupied Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and that remained the central focus of his work. Subsequent books, such as Expressions of Sea Level (1963), Tape for the Turn of the Year (1965; composed on adding-machine tape), and Uplands (1970), continued the poet's investigation into the relationship between the knowable and the unknowable.

      Ammons's style is both cerebral and conversational, embodying the often lofty meditations of one well-rooted in the mundane. Among the clearest influences on his work are Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. His later works—notably A Coast of Trees (1981), which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Sumerian Vistas (1988)—exhibit a mature command of imagery and ideas, balancing the scientific approach to the universe with a subjective, even romantic one. Garbage (1993), Ammons's book-length poem, received a National Book Award in 1993. Ammons was awarded the Bollingen Prize from Yale University in 1974.

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