A.R. Ammons (1926-2001) Ammons published nearly thirty collections of poems, including Bosh and Flapdoodle, Glare, Garbage (National Book Award), A Coast of Trees (National Book Critics Circle Award), Sphere (Bollingen Prize), and Collected Poems 1951-1971 (National Book Award).  He received the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.  Ammons taught poetry at Cornell University until 1998.