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    • by Bud Parr on 04/27/06 (0 comments)

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“Ashbery – born in 1927 – has gone on writing his poems, and writing them faster than most of us can read them.”

- Stephen Burt in “John Ashbery, a poet for our times” Times Literary Supplement

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“Early in the year, John Ashbery’s 26th book of poems, A Worldly Country, appeared and assured readers of his ongoing ability to simply amaze, or possibly to antagonize, with singular lyrics that are daring even as they frequently defy definition.”

- Edward Byrne

“This past week’s National Book Award nominations for poetry are a scandal that should get somebody fired, not so much for the poets who were chosen – most are credible examples of the same small school of writing – as for the selection of the panel who did the choosing. Charles Simic, Linda Bierds, David St. John, Vijay Seshadri, and Natasha Trethewey may be diverse in terms of gender, race, even age, but all five represent the same neophobe movement in American letters. There is not one post-avant, not one third-way, visual, slam or other kind of poet.”

– Ron Silliman

“In an ideal world I’d like to witness one member of the odd couple welcoming the other under its roof, the way Oscar welcomed Felix, and to see some of the Lilly money committed to sustain publication of Parnassus: Poetry in Review as a companion periodical to Poetry. Such an arrangement would provide a continuing location for poetry commentary, reviews, and analytical essays in Parnassus, perhaps while also allowing more of an opportunity for Poetry to be solely a source of fine poems in its pages.”

- Edward Byrne

(via Cosmopoetica)



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