A selective list of open access literary criticism on A.R. Ammons, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources,
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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
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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