Ammons, A.R. (1926-2001)

A selective list of online literary criticism on the American poet A.R. Ammons, favoring signed scholarly articles and books, peer-reviewed sources, sources supervised by (named) editors, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites.

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Literary Criticism

Castellitto, George P. "A.R. Ammons and Arthur Miller: Unexpected Metaphysical Connections." American Drama, Winter 2006

Conte, Joseph. "The Smooth and the Striated: Compositional Texture in the Modern Long Poem." Conte notes that 'The "smooth texts" among twentieth-century long poems might include .... A.R. Ammons's Garbage (1993)." In Modern Language Studies 27 (Spring 1997): 57-71

DiCiccio, Lorraine C. "Garbage: A.R. Ammons's tape for the turn of the century." Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 1996

Goldfarb, David. "The Psychology of Criticism and the Poetry of A.R. Ammons." About a visit by Dr. Goldfarb to the Finger Lakes and Ammons' Lake Effect Country, Mosaic, 1993

McConkey, James. "Rereading Ammons's long poems." American Poetry Review, The, May/Jun 2003

McGuirk, Kevin. "A.R. Ammons and 'the only terrible health' of Poetics." McGuirk asks "what are we to make of the contemporary lyric's continuing advertisement of presence when postmodernism elsewhere celebrates surface, difference, and alterity?" in Postmodern Culture, Volume 9, Number 1 (September 1998)

Lehman, David. A profile of A.R. Ammons Summer 1998 issue of American Poet

Lehman, David. A.R. Ammons: "God Is the Sense the World Makes without God." The American Poetry Review, May/Jun 2006

Pinsky, Robert. A brief memorial to A.R. Ammons by poet Robert Pinsky, transcript from PBS Newshour, 2/27/01

Introduction

An introduction to A.R. Ammons, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)

An extended, introductory article on A.R. Ammons, his career, a list of works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation

Brief news story about an event at Cornell University honoring Ammons, in connection with the gift of his papers to the university, in the Cornell Chronicle, 1998

A.R. Ammons obituary in the Ithica (NY) Journal, Feb. 27, 2001

A former student remembers A.R. Ammons as a teacher at Cornell, Cornell Chronicle, March 1, 2001, by Franklin Crawford

An introduction to A.R. Ammons from the Academy of American Poets

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