Garbage by A R Ammons

Garbage by A R Ammons

A. R. Ammons's poem with the unforgettable title is a defense of meaning 'this, ' the poet says, 'are awash in ideality.' Garbage is an epic of ideas: all life not that of human beings alone, but every species is shown to be part of an ultimate reality. Eternity is here and now. The argument ranges widely with a wealth of images taken from science, and the world around us, the writing by turns impassioned and witty. For power of the thought and language, the poem takes its place alongside Whitman's Song of Myself an American classic. Citation for the 1993 National Book Award for Poetry

A. R. Ammons’s (1926–2001) was a two-time winner of the National Book Award and the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award. His many additional honors include the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Robert Frost Medal, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.

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ISBN 13	9780393324112
ISBN 10	0393324117
Title	Garbage
Author	A R Ammons
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2003-02-11
Number of pages	128
Prizes	Winner of Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry 1994, Winner of National Book Award 1993
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