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Garbage - A Poem

English · Paperback / Softback

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"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


About the author

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.

Summary

Winner of the National Book Award.

Product details

Authors A R Ammons, A. R. Ammons, Ammons A. R.
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 11.02.2003
 
EAN 9780393324112
ISBN 978-0-393-32411-2
Dimensions 140 mm x 211 mm x 13 mm
Weight 180 g
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets

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