Three Poems

by John Ashbery

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067000345X
• ISBN13: 9780670003457
• Release Date: February 1972
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One never knows where they are (going) in an Ashbery poem.

_Three Poems_ is a journey of language itself; no destination of intention or meaning. One experiences a transparency--no mediation of form--of emotional states. These Ashbery poems are linguistic potential, potentially linguistic . . . nothing ever actualized by "saying". Ashbery circumambulates the thresholds of silence to collapse a medium shown to be inadequate to its content. It is this particular work that forced critical theories such as Deconstruction. These poems are not texts . . . the best "language poetry" since Stein's _Tender Buttons_.