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Selected Prose (Poets on Poetry)
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Product Description
The long-awaited collection of fifty years of writings by one of poetry's greatest figures
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1061792 in Books
- Published on: 2004-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
Customer Reviews
I do not hate the celery stick
Mr. Ashbery's prose is both crisp and pliable, like a spaghetti noodle half-submerged in boiling water, sticking above the rim of the pot like a flag-pole in an imaginary country whose flag has not yet been sewn together, or is off being mended.
Like Reported Sightings this book can lead the curious reader down many meandering paths of discovery that go off far beyond the book itself until it is little more than a bright little beacon in the distance assuring you that everything is still OK.
Footnote: Much of this review was inspired by a review that has now been removed. Apparently the author of said review mistook my comic riffs for downright mockery.
