Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
A. R. Ammons
Born: February 18, 1926
Died: February 25, 2001 (aged 75)
Bio: Archie Randolph Ammons was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993.
Known for:
- Tape for the turn of the year (1965)
- A Coast of Trees (1981)
- Ommateum: With Doxology (1955)
- Sphere (1974)
- The snow poems (1977)