Access this site and you'll be able to hear the famous writer read his poem "Eyesight" in RealAudio. Also housed here are a short list of annotations, and a full-text version of another of his poems "An Improvisation of Angular Momentum." A good site to visit for some quick information.

Academy of American Poets: A. R. Ammons
http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/arammfst.htm

This page, maintained by The Academy of American Poets ("to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry"), houses a lot of first-rate information about Ammons. From three full-text versions of his poems, to a link that provides a thorough biography of the author, this should be the first site you visit when beginning your research on Ammons.

Modern American Poetry: A. R. Ammons
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/ammons/ammons.htm

If you're searching for a site that provides excellent criticism on Ammons' poetry, look no further. Here you can view six well-written critical articles about Ammons' work, along with three other links to other Ammons sites.

BIOGRAPHY
A. R. Ammons (b. 1926). Born on a farm outside Whiteville, North Carolina, Archie Randolph Ammons was educated at Wake Forest College, where he earned his bachelor of science degree in 1949. He wrote his first poetry aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer escort in the South Pacific. After a two-year period at the University of California, Berkeley, Ammons became an executive of a New Jersey glass-making firm. In 1964, he took a teaching position at Cornell University as a Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry and taught there until his death in 2001. His first book of poetry, Ommateum with Doxology, appeared in 1955; a second volume, Expressions of Sea Level (1964), established him as a major America poetic voice. His work combines the minute particulars and detailed observation of science with an at-times sweeping lyricism. His works have been gathered in several editions, among them Collected Poems: 1951-1971 (1977), and Selected Longer Poems (1980). His poetry has received many awards, including the Lannan Poetry Award (1992), the National Book Critics Circle Award (1981), the Bollingen Prize (1975), and the National Book Award (1973). One of the first recipients of a MacArthur Fellowship, he has received other fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.