Photo: Edgar Rosenberg
A.R. Ammons was born in Whiteville, North Carolina, in 1926. His
recent collections of poems include Garbage (1993), The
Really Short Poems (1991), The Selected Poems: Expanded
Edition (1987) and Sumerian Vistas (1987). A.R. Ammons
has received numerous awards, including the Lannan Poetry Award
(1992), the National Book Critics Circle Award (1981), the Bollingen
Prize (1975), and the National Book Award (1973). He has been
the recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
award, and has received Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation
and from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A.R. Ammons
currently lives in Ithaca, New York, where he is Goldwin Smith
Professor of Poetry at Cornell University.
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