Garbage
A Poem
11 February 2003
Description
Winner of the National Book Award.
"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
Awards
Winner — Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, 1994
Winner — National Book Award, 1993
Also By: A. R. Ammons 
A Coast of Trees
E Book, 2019
This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems
E Book, 2019
"No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."—Harold BloomOmmateum: With Doxology: Poems
E Book, 2019
“Oracular, almost biblical at times, and as deeply embedded in the particulars of nature as the superb later poetry.”—John Ashbery
The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 2 1978-2005
E Book, 2018
“One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler
The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 1955-1977
E Book, 2018
“One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler
