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.

"There is always something interesting and provocative about Ammons's observations and use of language." -- Andrew Frisardi "Glare is A. R. Ammons at his most original and unrestrained... Ammons at seventy is totally audacious... Glare is high testimony." -- Harold Bloom

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.

"There is always something interesting and provocative about Ammons's observations and use of language." -- Andrew Frisardi "Glare is A. R. Ammons at his most original and unrestrained... Ammons at seventy is totally audacious... Glare is high testimony." -- Harold Bloom

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.

"There is always something interesting and provocative about Ammons's observations and use of language." -- Andrew Frisardi "Glare is A. R. Ammons at his most original and unrestrained... Ammons at seventy is totally audacious... Glare is high testimony." -- Harold Bloom