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Archie Randolph Ammons was an American poet who won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and again twenty years later in 1993. He wrote about humanity’s relationship to nature, often taking a comic tone and juxtaposing it against a solemn one. His poetry has been compared to Walt Whitman’s and Emily Dickinson’s.
‘Corsons Inlet’ is a complex, nuanced poem on the natural world and the character of reality by one of the major American poets of the latter half of the 20th century.
I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning
to the sea,
then turned right along
the surf
‘Coward’ by A.R. Ammons is a very short poem that speaks about bravery and asks the reader to analyze the truth of a single statement.
Bravery runs in my family.
‘The City Limits’ by A.R. Ammons is a powerful poem about nature. In it, the speaker supports spending more time in the natural world versus time in industrialized city centers.
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold
itself but pours its abundance without selection into every
nook and cranny not overhung or hidden; when you consider
‘Their Sex Life’ by A. R. Ammons is short in structure but complex in its poetic range. This poem explores the modern relationship and sexuality.
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