Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Codification: The Anxiety of Ambiguity....Pages 17-27
The Fragmented and Corruptible Body: Gendered Waste....Pages 29-43
The Civilizing Process: Divisive Divisions....Pages 45-53
Memory and Narrative: Ruins, Nostalgia, and Ghosts....Pages 55-64
Failed Source Reduction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Inability to Minimize....Pages 65-74
Urban Myths: The Civilized and Pristine City-Body....Pages 75-83
Interiorized Waste: Sin and Metaphysical Meaninglessness....Pages 85-95
The Toxic Metaphor of Wasted Humans: Those Filthy Cleaners Who Scrub Us Spotless....Pages 97-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
The Secret Life of Objects: The Audacity of Thingness and the Poignancy of Materiality....Pages 121-138
Trash Meditation: The Arts of Transience and Proximity....Pages 139-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Waste Aesthetics: Puns, Litter-ature, and Intertextuality....Pages 151-163
Gleaning Aesthetics: Poetry as Communal Salvage....Pages 165-170
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Compost Aesthetics: The Poet[h]ics of Metaphor....Pages 173-177
Poetry as Homeopathy: The Poet as Ragpicker....Pages 179-199
Back Matter....Pages 201-330