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Archie Randolph Ammons

American poet (1926-2001) · United States · Writers · Died at 75

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Archibald Randolph Ammons was an American poet and professor of English at Cornell University. Ammons published nearly thirty collections of poems in his lifetime.

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2001Died25 February 20011998Wallace Stevens AwardAward1995Ruth Lilly Poetry PrizeAward1994Robert Frost MedalAward1993National Book Award for PoetryAward1986North Carolina Award for LiteratureAward1981National Book Critics Circle Award for PoetryAward1975Bollingen PrizeAward1973National Book AwardAward1926Born18 February 1926

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Awards

Wallace Stevens Award1998
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize1995
Robert Frost Medal1994
National Book Award for Poetry1993
North Carolina Award for Literature1986
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry1981
Bollingen Prize1975
National Book Award1973
Guggenheim Fellowship
MacArthur Fellows Program
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Archibald Randolph Ammons was an American poet and professor of English at Cornell University. Ammons published nearly thirty collections of poems in his lifetime. Revered for his impact on American romantic poetry, Ammons received several major awards for his work, including two National Book Awards for Poetry, one in 1973 for Collected Poems and another in 1993 for Garbage.

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United States
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Type
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Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1926 to 2001 · aged 75

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