Criticism

Baker, David. "The Push of Reading." Kenyon Review 16, No. 4 (Fall 1994): 161-76.

Praises Ammons's Garbage as a "brilliant book."

Cushman, Stephen. "A. R. Ammons, or the Rigid Lines of the Free and Easy." In his Fictions of Form in American Poetry, pp. 149-86. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Analyzes the place of form in Ammons's poetry.

Deane, Patrick. "Justified Radicalism: A. R. Ammons with a Glance at John Cage." Papers on Language and Literature 28, No. 2 (Spring 1992): 206-22.

Discusses the implications of Ammons's use of adding machine tape to compose his Tape for the Turn of the Year.

Doreski, William. "Sublimity and Order in the Snow Poems." Pembroke Magazine, No. 21 (1989): 68-76.

Analyzes how Ammons's The Snow Poems "demonstrates the aesthetic possibilities and limitations of sequence."

Kirby, David. "Is There a Southern Poetry?" The Southern Review 30, No. 4 (Autumn 1994): 869-80.

Discusses what is unique about southern poets, including A. R. Ammons.

Oates, Joyce Carol. "Books of Change: Recent Collections of Poems." The Southern Review 9 (1973): 1014-29.

Praises Ammons's Collected Poems 1951–1971, and calls Ammons "timeless."

Spiegelman, Willard. "Myths of Concretion, Myths of Abstraction: The Case of A. R. Ammons." In his The Didactic Muse, pp. 110-46. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Analyzes the major themes found in Ammons's poetry throughout his career and how the poet deals with them.

Wolf, Thomas J. "A. R. Ammons and William Carlos Williams: A Study in Style and Meaning." Contemporary Poetry II, No. 3 (Winter 1977): 1-16.

Analyzes William Carlos Williams's influence on Ammons's poetry.