[New-Poetry] In search of John Ashbery

[David Graham]

Quite an entertaining and intelligent review of Ashbery's newest  
collection over at Boston Review.  By Forrest Gander.

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR32.4/article_gander.php

"Ashbery—about whom so much has been written that almost anything  
said about his work sounds like quotation—today is an entirely remade  
poet, a different creature altogether from the Ashbery of the three  
big prizes and the MacArthur Fellowship, different from the  
essentially French poet staring wistfully into a convex mirror and  
describing the world as it recedes dizzily back from his head into  
some far vanishing point. The Ashbery of today is as altered from his  
earlier work as the late hardened Yeats from the early bubbling myth- 
flecked Yeats."


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