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T1 The Unsung Heroes of Holy Garbage: An Analysis of Waste in A.R. Ammons’s Garbage
T2 Los héroes olvidados de la “basura sagrada”: un análisis de Garbage, de A.R. Ammons, desde los Waste Studies
A1 Simal-González, Begoña
K1 A.R. Ammons
K1 Garbage
K1 Waste Theory
K1 Waste Studies
K1 garbage dump
K1 waste collectors
K1 “Garbage Poetry”
AB This essay analyzes A.R. Ammons Garbage (1993) through the lens of Waste Studiesby focusing on the interactions between the material and metaphorical uses of waste,scrutinizing the complex trope of the dump-ziggurat, and paying special attention to theneglected figure of the waste collector or garbage worker. In the 1990s, when Ammonspublished his long poem, waste and garbage were becoming pivotal tropes in Americanpoetry. While Ammons deals with the inescapable presence of garbage in his homonymouspoem, he also goes beyond the materiality of waste in order to incorporate more metaphoricalresonances. Arguably, the most valuable insights that Garbage has to offer derive preciselyfrom its striking juxtaposition of the material and the immaterial, the scatological and theeschatological. Most importantly, Ammons not only sings a hymn to the huge garbagedump and its implications, but also to the “unsung heroes” of modernity (Bauman 2004):the anonymous workers who collect the garbage and maintain the landfill.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2023
FD 2023
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 03-may-2024