1st Printing. Moderate bumping at top of dustjacket spine, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy sans other flaws. Round silver "National Book Award Finalist" sticker on front cover. The critically revered , former National Book Award winning poet's "first book of poetry since "Sumerian Vistas" (1987). A.R. Ammons, one of America's greatest living poets, uses an unlikely subject-garbage-as the occasion for a profuond and often funny meditation on nature and mutability. Driving along I-95 in Florida the poet sights a smoldering mountain of the stuff and is moved to muse: "garbage has to be the poem of our time because / garbage is spiritual, believable enough / to get our attention, getting in the way, piling / up, stinking, turning brooks brownish and / creamy white: what else deflects us from the / errors of our illusionary ways.". 121 pages. LP.

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Title: Garbage: A Poem
Publisher: Norton & Co, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0393035425
ISBN 13: 9780393035421
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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The subject of garbage serves as the inspiration for a new collection of poetry, by the award-winning author of Sumerian Vistas, that explores the themes of nature and mutability.

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A. R. Ammons is currently Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry at Cornell University.

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