A. R. Ammons

The late A. R. Ammons (1926-2001) was Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of Poetry at Cornell University, the author of nearly thirty books of poetry, among them GLARE (1997); GARBAGE (1993), which won the National Book Award and the Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; A COAST OF TREES (1981) (National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry); SPHERE (1974) (Bollingen Prize); and COLLECTED POEMS 1951—1971 (1972) (National Book Award winner). Ammons's many other honors include the Academy of American Poets' Tanning Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A. R. AMMONS: SELECTED POEMS: David Lehman, Editor (The Library of America, 2006)

BOSH AND FLAPDOODLE (W. W. Norton, 2005)

COLLECTED POEMS, 1951-1971 (W. W. Norton, 2001)

COMPLETE POEMS (W. W. Norton & Co., 2015)

OMMATEUM WITH DOXOLOGY: POEMS: Preface by Roger Gilbert (W. W. Norton & Co., 2006)