"All Kinds of Caresses" ...
"All Kinds of Caresses" by means of John Ashbery was published in the Spring 1976 Chicago Review. Ashbery had newly won the National work Award, the National Book Critics' Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for his collection, Self-Portrait in a protuberant Mirror. Like his cohort in the strange York school, Ashbery is given to painterly abstraction and to appropriations of the language of everyday life. His verse is famously difficult; as he writes in the following metrical composition "It isn't absolutely clear." The code-name losse and compensations Float in and around us by the and of the ...
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