Garbage Author:A.R. Ammons Winner of the National Book Award. "A. R. Ammons's poem with the unforgettable title is a defense of meaning'things,' the poet says, 'are awash in ideality.' Garbage is an epic of ideas...the poem takes its place alongside Whitman's Song of Myselfan American classic."citation for the 1993 National Book Award for ... more »Poetry« less