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A. R. Ammons, or Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American author and poet. Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy Events The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery Plot V St Events 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor Events Immediately after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks W The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose"

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Life

Ammons was born in 1926 and raised in rural North Carolina, near Whiteville, the youngest of a tobacco farmer's three surviving children. North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States Tobacco is an Agricultural product recognized as an addictive drug processed from the fresh Leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. Ammons started writing poetry on board a United States destroyer escort in the South Pacific during World War II. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Pacific Ocean Areas was the major Allied military command in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Upon his return to civilian life he majored in science at Wake Forest University and later did graduate work in English at the University of California, Berkeley. Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational University in North Carolina, founded in 1834 The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley For a year he was principal of the tiny elementary school in the island village of Cape Hatteras. Cape Hatteras is a cape on the coast of North Carolina. It is the point that protrudes the furthest to the southeast along the northeast-to-southwest line of the For the better part of a decade he worked at Friedrich & Dimmock Inc. as a sales executive in his father-in-law's biological glass company in Millville, New Jersey. Millville is a city in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Later, Ammons became poet-in-residence at Cornell University.

Ammons spent periods of time as a resident of the South Jersey communities of Ocean City, Northfield and Millville. This is about a region in the United States For the island of Jersey see Jersey. Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. Northfield is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. [1]

On April 25, 2007 an extensive collection of in-depth manuscripts, works in progress, private and business correspondence plus fifteen of his watercolors were donated to East Carolina University and became the anchoring component in the Overcash-Wright Literary Collection housed in the James Yadkin Joyner Library. Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. East Carolina University is a public, Coeducational, Doctoral / Research University located in Greenville, North After the collection has been cataloged and materials, such as the watercolors, have been cleaned and preserved in acid-free materials, the library plans on opening a reception for the public.

Works

Ammons published Ommateum with Doxology, his first book, in 1955. Events The Group, a British poetry movement starts meeting in London with gatherings taking place once a week on Friday evenings at first In 1964, he joined the English faculty at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and published his second collection. His Collected Poems 1951-1971 (1972), won the National Book Award in 1973. Events John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland went out The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Events Canadian poet and author Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which Ammons is a maverick talent, utterly distinctive in voice, marked by high poetic ambition yet capable of whimsy. A nature poet, with a highly developed scientific acumen that sets him off from his contemporaries, Ammons often seems intent on making the consciousness of the poet the secret or real subject of the poem. In many cases, meticulous observation of the natural world is put at the service of abstract investigations and themes, such as the question of the one and the many; Ammons is constantly on the search for a unifying principle among minute and divergent particulars. The critic Harold Bloom has championed Ammons as a transcendentalist, 'the most direct Emersonian in American poetry since Frost'. The word critic comes from the Greek el κριτικός ( el-Latn kritikós) "able to discern" which in turn derives from the word Harold Bloom' (born July 11, 1930) is a Literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in Literature, Religion, Culture, and Philosophy that emerged in New England in the

Among long poems, Tape for the Turn of the Year (1965) is a notable experiment in form. Events Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union The poem's skinny lines are the result of Ammons's decision to type out the poem, without revision, on a long roll of adding-machine paper. The buoyant and discursive Sphere (1974), considered by some Ammons's masterpiece, displays his formal and prosodic originality. Events The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. Consisting of 155 sections, each containing four three-line stanzas, Sphere enacts 'the form of a motion' (the book's subtitle). The colon is used as an all-purpose punctuation mark, with the effect that closure is continually postponed. The three-line stanzas resemble what may be called "terza libre"—a rhymeless imitation of Dante's terza rima. Terza rima is a rhyming verse Stanza form that consists of an interlocking three line rhyme scheme Ammons writes in an American idiom, has a "democratic" bias in favor of lower-case letters, and switches rapidly from high to low diction.

Ammons also wrote, "So I said I am Ezra".

So I said I am Ezra
and the wind whipped my throat
gaming for the sounds of my voice
I listened to the wind
go over my head and up into the night
Turning to the sea I said
I am Ezra
but there were no echoes from the waves
The words were swallowed up
in the voice of the surf
or leaping over the swells
lost themselves oceanward
Over the bleached and broken fields
I moved my feet turning from the wind
that ripped sheets of sand
from the beach and threw them
like seamists across the dunes
swayed as if the wind were taking me away
and said
I am Ezra
As a word to much repeated
falls out of being
so I, Ezra went out into the night
like a drift of sand
and splashed among the windy oats
that clutch the dunes
of unremembered seas. (written 1955)

Awards

Ammons won National Book Awards twice — in 1973 for Collected Poems 1951-1971, and in 1993 for Garbage. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Events Canadian poet and author Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which Events January 20 &mdash Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton T He won the 1975 Bollingen Prize for his volume Sphere. Events With the 1974, fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 returned The Bollingen Prize, which is presently awarded every two years by Beinecke Library of Yale University, is a prestigious literary honor bestowed on an American Poet He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, which was the first year of these fellowships. The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes Nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D Events Final issue of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine published First issue of Conjunctions literary journal published He received the North Carolina Award in literature in 1986. The North Carolina Award is the highest civilian award bestowed by the U The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books In 1987, Ammons became a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books The Fellowship of Southern Writers is a literary organization founded in 1987 in Chattanooga Tennessee by 21 Southern authors writers and other literary He received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1992. The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation Events The Forward Book of Poetry an annual anthology of best British poems is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust He received the biennial Frost Medal for 1993/94. The Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement Events January 20 &mdash Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton T Events Allen Ginsberg sells his papers to Stanford University for $1 million In 1994, his volume Garbage won the biennial Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry. Events Allen Ginsberg sells his papers to Stanford University for $1 million The Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry is awarded biennially by the Library of Congress on behalf of the nation in recognition for the most distinguished In 1995, he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. Events February 16 &mdash Announcement that 300 poems by ST Coleridge have been discovered February 17 &mdash Sotheby's The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation; the Foundation also publishes ''Poetry''. In 1998 Ammons received the Wallace Stevens Award. Events Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004) The Wallace Stevens Award is a major annual American literary award for mastery of poetry in the English language

Bibliography

Poetry

Prose

Secondary sources

References

  1. ^ Miller, Michael. "Pulitzer Prize poet will read works in O.C.", The Press of Atlantic City, June 22, 2007. The Press of Atlantic City is a Newspaper based in Pleasantville New Jersey. Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Accessed August 14, 2007. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. "The late poet A. R. Ammons, formerly of Ocean City, Northfield and Millville, won the prestigious National Book Award. "

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