Quote of the day
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
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)