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. Robert M. West is a professor of English at Mississippi State University and editor of The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons.

"It’s a rocking double-wide mobile home of electric American verse."

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. Robert M. West is a professor of English at Mississippi State University and editor of The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons.

"It’s a rocking double-wide mobile home of electric American verse."

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. Robert M. West is a professor of English at Mississippi State University and editor of The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons.

"It’s a rocking double-wide mobile home of electric American verse."