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In its own circulation of "tissues and holograms of energy," Garbage is an abundant "celebration" of diverse late-20th-century difficulties and possibilities.

Further Reading Buell, Fredrick, "Ammons's Peripheral Vision: Tape for the Turn

of the Year and Garbage," in Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A.R. Ammons's Long Poems, edited by Steven P. Schneider, Madison, New jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 1999

Schneider, Steven P., A.R. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope, Rutherford, New jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 1994

Schneider, Steven P., "From the Wind to the Earth: An Interview with A.R. Ammons," in Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A.R. Ammons's Long Poems, edited by Schneider, Madison, New jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 1999

Scigaj, Leonard M., "'The World Was the Beginning of the World': Agency and Homology in A.R. Ammons's Garbage," in Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and the Environment, edited by Michael P. Branch, Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1998

Tobin, Daniel, "A.R. Ammons and the Poetics of Chaos," in Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A.R. Ammons's Long Poems, edited by Steven P. Schneider, Madison, New jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 1999

Vendler, Helen, "The Snow Poems and Garbage," in Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A.R. Ammons's Long Poems, edited by Steven P. Schneider, Madison, New jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 1999

Sphere: The FornI of a Motion A.R. Ammons' second book-length poem, Sphere: The Form ofa Motion, was published in 1974 and won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry that year. Generally praised by critics, it is widely regarded as one of Ammons' most successful book-length long poems. Sphere is divided into 155 numbered sections, with each section consisting of four stanzas of three lines each. The poem is, essentially, one long sentence with almost no punctuation. There are commas and colons, but there is no end stop until the poem, after 79 pages, reaches its end. It is a memorable ride. Sphere is a deeply original and wonderfully seductive poem.