NY: FSG 2002 100 pp $21 John ...
NY: FSG 2002 100 pp $21 John Ashbery is the horizon beyond which, at near we do not diocese In such splendors as Self-Portrait in a gibbous Mirror (1975), Houseboat Days (1977) and A Wave (1984) Ashbery has forged an anti-romantic romanticism, recording his belatedness in multi-vocal registers, simultaneously beguiling and exasperating readers with the defamiliarizing strangeness and set at libertyed humor of his Byzantine attacks onward reference and meaning. He is notorious for writing metrical compositions that seem open to any interpretation whatsoever, or to no interpretation at all,
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