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             A. R. Ammons (1926-2001)

                        LAYABOUT

First Line: The early

This poem is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder. It can be found, for example, in:

  • Ammons, A.R. The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990.

    A(rchie) R(andolph) Ammons was awarded the National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993, and the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1975.