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THE PLEASURES OF POETRY Certainly Ashbery’s art criticism helps illuminate some of the fundamental principles that govern his own poetry. From 1965 until 1972, Ashbery worked as executive editor of the New York-based magazine Art News, in which he published major essays on de Kooning, Saul Steinberg, Joseph Cornell and avant-garde art in general. One…
Making It New It was as though I’d been left with the empty street A few seconds after the bus pulled out. A dollop of afternoon wind. Others tell you to take your attention off it For awhile, refocus the picture. Plan to entertain, To get out. (Do people really talk that way?) J Ashbery…
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