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Memorable Book Quotes Part 6: Poetry Edition
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John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their clashing interplay a structure of dazzling brilliance and strong emotional impact. From this preoccupation arises a poetry that passes beyond conventional limits into a highly individual realm of effectiveness, one that may be roughly likene
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Manufacturer: Wesleyan
Release date: 15 December 1977
ISBN-10 : 0819510130 | ISBN-13: 9780819510136
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Release date: 15 December 1977
ISBN-10 : 0819510130 | ISBN-13: 9780819510136
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