AR Ammons
Archie Randolph Ammons (born February 18, 1926 in Whiteville , North Carolina , † February 25, 2001 in Ithaca , New York ) was an American university professor and poet who won not only the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award , but also twice received the National Book Award in the Poetry category .
biography
The son of a tobacco grower did his military service in the US Naval Reserve during the Second World War and began studying at Wake Forest College after the end of the war , which he graduated in 1949. He then completed postgraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley .
He made his literary debut in 1955 with the anthology Ommateum: With Doxology , which was followed in 1963 by the collection of poems Expressions of Sea Level .
In 1964 he accepted a professorship for creative writing at Cornell University in Ithaca and taught there until his retirement in 1998.
The anthologies Corson's Inlet (1965), Tape for the Turn of the Year (1965), Uplands (1970) and Collected Poems 1951-1971 (1972), for which he won the National Book Award in the poetry category for the first time in 1973, were published got awarded. In 1975 he was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry for his volume of poetry Sphere (1974) . He then published a few more volumes of his poems with Selected Longer Poems (1980), A Coast of Trees (1981), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry , Selected Poems (1987) and Sumerian Vistas (1988).
For the collection of poems Garbage (1993), twenty years after Collected Poems 1951-1971, he received another National Book Award for poetry in 1993. Ammons last published the anthology Glare in 1997 , who was considered by the literary critic Harold Bloom to be one of the most important American poets living at the time .
In 1978 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1990 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1981 he was a MacArthur Fellow .
Web links
- AR Ammons in the nndb (English)
- Biography (poets.org)
- Biography and Works (Modern American Poetry)
- Biography (poetryfoundation.org)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In Retrospect: Stephen Burt on AR Ammons's “A Coast of Trees” (May 18, 2010)
- ↑ Members: AR Ammons. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 13, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ammons, AR |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ammons, Archie Randolph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Whiteville , North Carolina |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 2001 |
| Place of death | Ithaca , New York |