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A.R. Ammons


Born
in Whiteville, North Carolina, The United States
February 18, 1926

Died
February 25, 2001

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Archie Randolph Ammons was born outside Whiteville, North Carolina, on February 18, 1926. He started writing poetry aboard a U. S. Navy destroyer escort in the South Pacific. After completing service in World War II, he attended Wake Forest University and the University of California at Berkeley.

His honors included the Academy's Wallace Stevens Award, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He lived in Ithaca, New York, where he was Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry at Cornell University until his retirement in 1998. Ammons died on February 25, 2001.
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“Things go away to return, brightened for the passage”
A.R. Ammons, Sphere: The Form of a Motion

“One can't
have it

both ways
and both

ways is
the only

way I
want it.”
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“What destruction have I been blessed by?”
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