John Ashbery

Author: John Ashbery

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L. S. Asekoff, The Gate of Horn: Poems (2010)

An agitation like that of heat lightning fixes the landscapes of death and life in Lou Asekoff’s incredible new collection. We are in “the black factory where the mad astronomer / practices long division against the night, / brave souvenirs of those who stood in lonely solidarity with the weather / & died in defense of the rain.” it’s thrilling to accompany him “from ridiculous heights of tulip mania / to icy catastrophe of the falls” to“the obscene theater of sleep.” Asekoff is a superb poet at the height of his powers.

Blurbs for John Ashbery

Blurbs for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975):

No one now writing poetry in the English language is likelier than Ashbery to survive the severe judgments of time. . . . He is joining that American sequence that includes Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane.

Harold Bloom

Ashbery is astonishingly original, and though his mannerisms have been widely imitated, he himself has imitated no one.

Edmund White

A style devoid of pretension and a beautiful ease of manner that is rarely less than enchanting . . . There is no one who writes quite like Ashbery, and the poetic territory he inhabits is very much his own.

Paul Auster

Blurbs for Breezeway: New Poems (2015):

No one now writing poetry in the English language is likelier than Ashbery to survive the severe judgments of time. . . . He is joining that American sequence that includes Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane.

Harold Bloom

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