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Garbage (1993), Ammons’s book-length poem in eighteen chapters, is considered a modern masterpiece. It won the National Book Award in 1993.
A contemporary poet whose writings have often been compared to Ammons’s is Pattiann Rogers. The best works of her career have been collected in the Song of the World Becoming: Poems, New and Collected, 1971–2001 (2001).
Critics considering Ammons’s poetry usually draw a connection to the work of American poet Walt Whitman. Their styles are seldom similar, but both men share a common sensibility about the natural...
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