Look here for inspiration for your modern fairy tale or work of magical realism.
So...not a fan. I wonder if I had Ashbery confused with someone else (as happens with me) when I bought this whenever I did. It's strange: you don't know where the poems are going to go, which is typically desirable. But it's like being taken round by a tour guide, and you may not know where you're ...
Here's the problem with this book: I never really got any idea why Fantomas was doing all this shit. I mean, he gets up into these elaborate disguises so he can kill one person or another, but why does he want that person dead? Not really explained. And he also makes some pretty stupid mistakes for ...
One of the most important individual volumes of poetry ever published. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Even if you end up deciding you hate Ashbery (and many do), everyone who cares about poetry at all owes it to themsel...
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Magical and inspiring!
These certainly are obscure poems, for the most part. Not that the syntax is difficult; but rather the statements, the metaphors and choice of phrases, are so opaquely self-willed. My reaction is mostly to wish for footnotes, then shrug. One exception among those I've read so far is the long title p...
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