How coastal Carolina shaped 20th-century poet AR Ammons

How coastal Carolina shaped 20th-century poet AR Ammons

The Waccamaw River just south of the community of Old Dock, an area A.R. Ammons memorialized in his poetry. Photo: Jonathan Pattishall Before composing over two dozen volumes of poetry, before becoming a professor at the prestigious Cornell University in upstate New York, and long before winning any of his numerous national literary awards, Archibald Randolph Ammons was a poor boy working on his father’s Columbus County farm during the Great Dep…