caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title education name occupation
ammons in 1998 25 february 2001 ithaca , new york near whiteville , north carolina american 18 february 1926 a r ammons 1998.jpg a. r. ammons
 wake forest university university of california , berkeley a. r. ammons poet , columnist , essayist
a. r. ammons

archie randolph ammons -lrb- february 18 , 1926 -- february 25 , 2001 -rrb- was an american poet who won the annual national book award for poetry in 1973 and 1993 .
he wrote about humanity 's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones .
among the topics often addressed by ammons in his poetry , those of religious and philosophical concern are visited in his works as are many scenes involving nature , almost in a transcendental fashion .
according to one reviewer , daniel hoffman , his work `` is founded on an implied emersonian division of experience into nature and the soul , '' adding that it `` sometimes consciously echofamiliar lines from emerson , whitman and -lsb- emily dickinson . ''
