A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), author of many books of poetry, won a Bollingen Prize; two National Book Awards; a National Book Critics Circle Award; a Library of Congress Prize for Poetry; a Wallace Stevens Award; and a Robert Frost Medal. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught at Cornell University.

"[A] vernacular American Ovid, an irreverent master of metamorphosis." -- Edward Hirsch "His poems, framed in ordinary language and couched in stately couplets, are twisty and testy, bawdy and funny."

A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), author of many books of poetry, won a Bollingen Prize; two National Book Awards; a National Book Critics Circle Award; a Library of Congress Prize for Poetry; a Wallace Stevens Award; and a Robert Frost Medal. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught at Cornell University.

"[A] vernacular American Ovid, an irreverent master of metamorphosis." -- Edward Hirsch "His poems, framed in ordinary language and couched in stately couplets, are twisty and testy, bawdy and funny."

A. R. Ammons (1926–2001), author of many books of poetry, won a Bollingen Prize; two National Book Awards; a National Book Critics Circle Award; a Library of Congress Prize for Poetry; a Wallace Stevens Award; and a Robert Frost Medal. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught at Cornell University.

"[A] vernacular American Ovid, an irreverent master of metamorphosis." -- Edward Hirsch "His poems, framed in ordinary language and couched in stately couplets, are twisty and testy, bawdy and funny."