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Person Detail: A(rchie) R(andolph) Ammons

General Information:
Full Name: A(rchie) R(andolph) Ammons
Biography:
(1926-2001) Poet. Archie Randolph Ammons was the author of many collections of poetry, including "Garbage;"(1993)"The Selected Poems:" (1951-1977) Ammons was a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Life Events:
Year: 1926 Event: BIRTH (Unknown) County
Archie Randolph Ammons was born in Whiteville, North Carolina in 1926. 
Year: 1955 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Ommateum with Doxology
Poetry collection. 
Year: 1964 Event: OTHER Tompkins County
Ammons was a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca from 1964 to 1971.  
Year: 1964 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Expressions of Sea Level
Poetry collection. 
Year: 1965 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Tape for the Turn of the Year
 
Year: 1972 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Collected Poems: 1951-1971
Collection of poetry which won the National Book Award in 1972. 
Year: 1974 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Sphere
Collection of poetry and winner of the Bollingen Prize in 1974. 
Year: 1981 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
A Coast of Trees
Collection of poetry and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 1981. 
Year: 1993 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Garbage
Collection of poetry and winner of the National Book Award and the Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry in 1993.  
Year: 1996 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Glare
 
Year: 2001 Event: DEATH (Unknown) County
A. R. Ammons died in 2001. 
Year: 2005 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Bosh and Flapdoodle
Poetry collection published posthumously. 

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