...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. And I were a genie We'd dance on the surface of Pluto And dine at Ipanema beach in Rio. Nothing much else Glues me to this shredded fabric Of the marvelous, on sale all these years With no buyers and just...

... 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...

... Bernstein, Republics of Reality 1 All poems by Charles Bernstein used with permission. John Ashbery’s poem “The Prob- lem of Anxiety” was published in his volume Can You Hear, Bird. Copyright © 1995, 2007 by John Ashbery. All rights reserved. His poem “Laughing Gravy” was published in his...

... does. A nonhuman subjectivity is born in the conflation of the poetic I with the lilting, uplifting swish, sway, and shake of the canine hindquarters. In pressing upon readers this more difficult if less grandiose habit of mind, John Ashbery finds his voice in a depersonalization as wanton...

... of the feeling of an almost genetic connection between poetry and natural fact (Fletcher 2004: 22), or as John Ashbery writes in For John Clare, the feeling that the sky may be at the back of someone s mind (Ashbery 2008: 198). This interaction is clear in each of the triad of poets the book describes...

...” 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...

.... 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...

..., with their inarticulate liberties and reckless loyalties to the moment’’ (86). These codes of selfhood are distanced via a heightened Bay Area critical reflexivity and self-consciousness that may be closer to Peter Handke than to memory-haunted Proust or the disappearing acts of John Ashbery in their hard-edged...

.... 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...

... 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...

... , Ashbery, Bernstein), and publisher (ntamo 2007–17). Marjorie Perloff is the author of many books on twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics, most recently, Unoriginal Genius: Writing by Other Means in the New Century (2011). Her new book Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics...

... 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...

..., was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, while John Ashbery was the editor of ARTnews , and Barbara Guest and James Schuyler served as contributors to the century-old Art in America , not to mention Robert Creeley's well-known friendship with Willem de Kooning and the abstract expressionists in general...

... 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...

... & concrete poetry); sound poetry; poetry and comedy; and teaching 20th-century poetry. Among the writers to be considered: Louis Althusser, Bruce Andrews, David Antin, Arakawa & Madeline Gins, John Ashbery, Walter Benjamin, Bruce Boone, Nicole Brossard, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Lenny Bruce...

... 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...

... Habermasianism, is not to claim that the Net’s blurring of these categories is simply liberatory.33 Remember that rational subjects were a prerequisite for this hal- lowed public sphere.34 Picking up on their absence in Gardner’s work, John Ashbery, in a blurb for the book...