Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an award-winning American poet.
Ammons grew up on a tobacco farm near Whiteville, in southeastern North Carolina. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, he attended Wake Forest University, where he majored in biology; he received his M.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1964, he joined the faculty of Cornell University, eventuall...
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Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an award-winning American poet.
Ammons grew up on a tobacco farm near Whiteville, in southeastern North Carolina. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, he attended Wake Forest University, where he majored in biology; he received his M.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1964, he joined the faculty of Cornell University, eventually becoming Goldwin Smith Professor of English and Poet in Residence. He retired from Cornell in 1998.
During the five decades of his poetic career, Ammons was the recipient of many awards and citations. Among his major honors are two National Book Awards (1973, for Collected Poems 1951-1971, and 1993, for Garbage); the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets (1998); and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, the year the award was established.
Ammons's other awards include a 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for A...
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