The Boston Globe, July 3rd, 2005
Garbage has become a metaphor of modernity. It's the main character in Don DeLillo's novel "Underworld," where the sinister and shadowy waste trader, Jesse Detwiler, claims that the throwaway culture forced postindustrial countries to "come up with a resourceful means of disposal" and "build a social structure to carry it out workers, managers, haulers, scavengers." DeLillo expects us to add to the list organized criminals, corrupt congressmen, and environment-endangering entrepreneurs. In a book-length meditation on a mountain-chain of trash along I- 95 in Florida, the poet A. R. Ammons agree...
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