Reviews

Garbage by A. R. Ammons

allalexsbooks's review

5.0

Just brushstrokes: From cultivation to suffocation. if spring and aspen speech. if love were likely it would not be love.
Really, phew. Good.

nickrs's review against another edition

4.0

I still think maybe I prefer Ammons in his shorter, more honed forms, but his tape-unspooling run-on long poem style is singular (at least as far as my limited poetry-reading life allows me to judge), and the concept here is perfectly suited to his backporch Presocratic, self-deflating, and post-nuclear nature-poet ways. Just doesn't quite stick the landing, which is a risk of his off-the-cuff, (ostensibly) undesigned approach.