[New-Poetry] one of the truly essential poets

[Anny Ballardini]

Don't know, but this quotation seems to me to make much sense, I can understand every word and picture the scene perfectly, don't you?
RE.:
"This Room". "The room I entered was a dream of this room. / Surely all those feet on the sofa were mine. / The oval portrait / of a dog was me at an early age. / Something shimmers, something is hushed up."
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  http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/poetry/0,,2216060,00.html
  Something burning

  Nicholas Lezard hails the later work of one of the truly essential poets, John Ashbery 
  Saturday November 24, 2007
  The Guardian 

  Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, by John Ashbery (Carcanet, £12.95)
  You may, on reading Ashbery's work, be reminded of John Cage's infuriating remark: "I have nothing to say and I am saying it, and that is poetry." Let me give you an example: the first stanza of Ashbery's poem "This Room". "The room I entered was a dream of this room. / Surely all those feet on the sofa were mine. / The oval portrait / of a dog was me at an early age. / Something shimmers, something is hushed up."
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