A. R. 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 not only the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award but also twice the National Book Award in the category of poetry received.

Biography

The son of a tobacco planter made ​​during the Second World War, his military service in the U.S. Naval Reserve and began after the end of the war to study at Wake Forest College and Financial Statements 1949. He then completed a postgraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley.

His literary debut came in 1955 with the anthology Ommateum: With Doxology, the poetry collection Expressions of Sea Level followed in 1963.

In 1964 he accepted an appointment as professor of creative writing at Cornell University in Ithaca and taught there until his retirement in 1998.

In the period following the anthologies Corson 's Inlet (1965 ) for which he in1973 the National Book Award in the category of poetry published, Tape for the Turn of the Year (1965 ), Uplands ( 1970) and Collected Poems 1951-1971 (1972 ) lent got. For his poetry collection Sphere (1974 ) 1975, the Bollingen Prize to him for Poetry was awarded. Then he published Selected Poems Longer (1980 ), A Coast of Trees (1981 ), which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, Selected Poems (1987) and Sumerian Vistas (1988 ) some more volumes of his poems.

For the poetry collection Garbage (1993 ) he received twenty years after Collected Poems 1951-1971 in 1993, another National Book Award for Poetry. Finally, the anthology was published by Ammons, which was calculated from the literary critic Harold Bloom to be the most important then living poets of the United States, 1997 glare.

In 1981 he was MacArthur Fellow.