by Mickie Kennedy
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John Ashbery, born in Rochester, New York, in 1927, is the author of nineteen books of poetry, including Wakefulness; The Tennis Court Oath; Can You Hear, Bird; And the Stars Were Shining (1994); Hotel Lautrémont (1992); Flow Chart (1991); April Galleons (1987); A Wave (1984), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Read more »
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by Mickie Kennedy
“[L]inear chronological autobiographical narrative is bullshit,” Ron Silliman, from “Albany.”
“Goal is not to have a goal,” John Cage.
“For modern poetry, since it must be distinguished from classical poetry and from any type of prose, destroys the spontaneously functional nature of language, and leaves standing only its lexical basis,” Roland Barthes, from Writing Degree Zero.
“Narrativity is short-circuited from the moment the reading process is spatialized,” Jerome McGann
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