The Snow Poems Author:A. R. Ammons The Snow Poems is the 1977 publication by A. R. Ammons, an author who has been called the imaginative, innovative modern American poet. Critics and readers alike recognize Ammons's achievement: in 1973, his Collected Poems won the National Book Award for poetry; in 1975, his long Poem Sphere was nominated for the National Book Award and received... more » the Bollingen prize for Poetry; in 1977, he received an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The Snow Poems, Ammons's twelfth book, was a major achievement by a major American poet.« less