Conserving the Magnitude of Uselessness Archive The Importance of Uselessness: Language and Nature in the Poems of A. R. Ammons Author: Ariel Katz | Aug052017 Categories: Critical Essays No comments The poems of A. R. Ammons focus on easily overlooked, easily dismissed elements of the natural world. Ammons observes the inevitability of time both on a microscopic and global level: how time affects everything from maggots to “drift-logs.”