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...Ben Lerner It is a commonplace that John Ashbery's poetry is, in some important sense, “about time,” but we lack an account of the specific experience of temporality it enables. Part of the bizarre power of Ashbery's best poetry is that it seems to narrate what it is like to read Ashbery's best...

...Ian Probstein Abstract The essay explores the work of Charles Bernstein in light of constant renewal. John Ashbery, as one of the brightest representatives of the New York School, and Charles Bernstein, as a representative of the language (L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E), have similar attitudes...

.... The discussion ends with Bernstein's then new poem, written for John Ashbery on the day he died. Copyright © Charles Bernstein 2021 Mexican poetry John Ashbery Artifice of Absorption boogeyman Círculo de poesía , Mexico, January 2018 (Spanish Today, when in poetry the discourses...

... a typical modernist tone—and frame and formalize it with the sheer verbal excite- ments of admitting into the poem traces of the domestic space in which the act of writing occurs, the latter a postmodern mode Stevens perfected a few years before John Ashbery began writing maturely and a generation...

... Allegrezza William , ed. 2012 . The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein . Norfolk UK : Salt Publishing . Ashbery John . 2007 . “The Problem of Anxiety” and “Laughing Gravy.” In Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems , 185 and 209 . New York : Harper Collins . Bernstein...

....” Jacket2 , October 2 . jacket2.org/commentary/william-carlos-williams-1952-0 . Ashbery John . 1985 . A Wave: Poems . New York : Penguin Books . Berryman John . 2014 . The Dream Songs . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Bishop Elizabeth . 2011 . Poems . New...

... to map the unfolding labyrinth of Fletcher’s conceptual world. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 allegory theory poetry secrecy horizon References Ashbery John . 2008 . Collected Poems 1956–1987 . Edited by Ford Mark . New York : Library of America...

...” event is thus nailed to the continuum of the incessant or recurring experience, captured, or at least alluded to, by John Ashbery in his provocative “They Dream only of America”: They dream only of America To be lost among the thirteen million pillars of grass: “This honey is delicious Though...

... or the disappearing acts of John Ashbery in their hard-edged alienation. The stream of attention and sign- ing of consciousness (not so much ‘‘stream’’ as ‘‘virtuality’’ of space and Wilson / Pamela Lu and Catalina Cariaga 11 memory) are mingled with flights of erotic tenderness...

.... Bernstein has written wonderfully about “The Skaters,” one of John Ashbery's most visionary and, in an indescribable way, grave but light-hearted poems. Bernstein's confession to not being able to relive the unadulterated joys of that poem in “If Sappho Were a UFO” strikes me as telling, which leads me...

.... John Ashbery and English Poetry. New York: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Holland, Sharon Patricia. The Erotic Life of Racism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Jin, Wen. Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms. Columbus: Ohio State...

...: Les échanges franco-américains en poésie depuis 1968 (2021). Leevi Lehto (1951–2019) was an influential and prolific Finnish poet, translator (of, among others, Joyce's Ulysses , Ashbery, Bernstein), and publisher (ntamo 2007–17). Marjorie Perloff is the author of many books on twentieth...

... a poem and the metaphors were goofing off? What if you came across a poem in which the title didn’t have a particularly useful function, for example, John Ashbery’s “Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape,” which is largely an art history spoof quite unrelated to the poem that follows...

... is identifying clever lies, self-exonerating­ rhetoric, and the brilliant intricacies of conscious and unconscious rhetorical, narrative, and (frequently) allegorical operations. If, for example, John Ashbery’s poetic oeuvre rests inside a long writing practice drawing upon verbal sophisti- cation...

... Oath , perhaps the most radical of John Ashbery's books; and Objectivists in general. All of them share with the projectivist poets of Black Mountain College, like Robert Duncan, a greater attention to the method with which the poem is constructed than to its result, under the premise...

... The kind of trust we place in our verbal interlocutors is not essentially different from the kind of trust we place in otherwise nongarru- lous lumps of matter or scientific instruments. As John Ashbery’s poem has it, ‘‘You can’t compete with what the / Car tells its owner 15 This is what is peculiar...

..., Bruce Andrews, David Antin, Arakawa & Madeline Gins, John Ashbery, Walter Benjamin, Bruce Boone, Nicole Brossard, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Lenny Bruce, Basil Bunting, Stanley Cavell, Hélène Cixous, James Clifford, Lucille Clifton, Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley, Tina Darragh, Alan Davies...

... again” (233). And indeed, his writing is striking in its extraordinary variety of structures and textures: litanies riveted by an anaphora, zany parables, meditative fragments, political ballads, doggerel, or echoes of famous lines; one may overhear Yeats in “Songs of the Wandering Poet” or Ashbery...

... has been mostly—or perhaps entirely—skipped over by anthologists; as Ashbery and others have said for years, he’s distinctly a harbinger of the tone associated with the New York Poets. Mary Barnard—a living poet writing very much in the tradition of Pound and H.D.—likewise has been ignored. I...

... public sphere.34 Picking up on their absence in Gardner’s work, John Ashbery, in a blurb for the book Petroleum Hat, notes, “Unlike the old model of protest poetry, Drew Gardner isn’t interested in earnest appeals to reason and compassion. He’ll match the political spectacle...