Archie R. Ammons - Ithaca, NY
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The grave of American poet Archie Randoph Ammons is located in Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Ithaca, NY.
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Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/14/2017
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The grave of Archie R. Ammons and his wife Phyllis is marked by a large granite headstone. On the front of the headstone is inscribed te family name AMMONS and below the opening line from his poem In Memoriam Mae Noblitt THIS IS JUST A PLACE . On the back of the headstone is the inscription:
ARCHIE R. AMMONS
FEBRUARY 18, 1926 - FEBRUARY 25, 2001
PHYLLIS P. AMMONS
AUGUST 8, 1923 - JULY 2, 2013
Archie Randolph Ammons was born near Whiteville, NC on February 25, 2001. During World War II he served U.S. Navy, aboard the battleship escort U.S.S. Gunason. In 1949 he graduated from Wake Forest University with a major in biology and married Phyllis Plumbo. He then went on to earn a M.A. in English from University of California, Berkeley.
Ammons published his first poem Ommateum, with Doxology in 1955 but did not begin to publish his poetry regularly until 1965. In 1964 he joined the faculty of Cornell University, eventually becoming Goldwin Smith Professor of English and Poet in Residence. He retire in 1998. During his tenure at Cornell he received many awards for his poetry. Including winning the National Book Award for Poetry both in 1973 for Collected Poems and 1993 for Garbage.
Wikipedia list the following poems by Archie R. Ammons:
Ommateum, with Doxology 1955
Expressions of Sea Level 1964
Corsons Inlet 1967
Tape for the Turn of the Year 1972
Northfield Poems 1966
Selected Poems 1968
Uplands 1970
Briefings: Poems Small and Easy 1971
Collected Poems, 1951-1971 1972
Sphere: The Form of a Motion 1974 - Winner of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry
Diversifications 1975
The Selected Poems: 1951-1977 1977
Highgate Road 1977
The Snow Poems 1977
Selected Longer Poems 1980
A Coast of Trees 1981 - Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Worldly Hopes 1982
Lake Effect Country 1983
The Selected Poems: Expanded Edition 1986
Sumerian Vistas 1987
The Really Short Poems 1991
Garbage 1993
The North Carolina Poems 1994
Glare 1997
Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems 2005
Selected Poems 2006
The North Carolina Poems. New, expanded edition 2010
The Mule Poems 2010