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you're not familiar with Ashbery's poetry, and you read a lot of poetry, you'll find his stuff very different and hopefully refreshing, It's not linear it's narrative in a strange way, the way dreams jump around from image to image, topic to topic, It seems very streamofconsciousness, but impersonal and therefore open to whatever interpretation you might want to bring to the table, On my first introduction to Ashbery, years ago, I hated his work because it "didn't make sense" and "didn't tell a story", I was wrong. Many of these poems can make sense and tell a story if you're willing to suspend judgment and enjoy his use of language, Now that I have more experience reading and writing poetry, I see Ashbery's work as brilliant, even though at first glance it's easy to label it nonsensical or deliberately obtuse.
He's really impossible to imitate, or at least to imitate well, I know no one else who writes like this, His work isn't easy, but it has a great sense of humor and can touch deep emotion with what it triggers as you read, When the world doesn't make sense, Ashbery is a great touchstone, reminding you that not everything needs to "make sense" or be completely clear to be resonant mentally and emotionally.
Well worth the work it takes to read, And if you're not "into" poetry, you may enjoy Ashbery more, simply because he takes off in such surprising and unpredictable directions, However, I'm sure there are many who read one poem, go "this is weird, I don't get it", and never dig any further, I'm glad I persisted. This is a book of poetry to go back to as inspiration for the imagination and the unconscious voice popping up out of seemingly nowhere, Ashbery makes what he does look and sound easy but it's not, maybe it was just me, but a lot of this felt like nonsense, and not the whimsical fun kind,
so many lines seems completely random and separate from the rest of the poem, like it was only added to make it feel obscure and niche, it just wasnt for me,

it took me over a week to read this because i just couldnt get into it John Ashbery's sixteenth collection of poems, like all the others, strikes out into new territory and engages the reader in new and unexpected ways.
With the exception of the title poem, which concludes the volume a thirteenpart poem of exceptional grace and brilliance the fiftyeight poems in this collection are mostly short in their relative brevity they display all the valiant wit and rich lyric intensity which readers know from Ashbery's expansive longer work.
The critic Harold Bloom has observed: "And the Stars Were Shining is one of John Ashbery's strongest collections, the title poem his most beautiful long poem yet, He helps to redeem a bad time when many among us have joined in a guilty flight away from the aesthetic, " probably., at times slightly too discursive but brillaint tone, simplicity, and playfulness It would take a reread to know if I missed something, but I found large sections of the language to be tortured to no stylistic or meaningful end.
There were several moments where things did resolve vividly, but they came too infrequently for me, And I continue to miss why John Ashbery is revered as one of our greatest poets, Lovely energy. read in response to the popsugar reading challenge prompt “a book with fewer than,goodreads reviews” It has some really good pieces in it, but it in no way compares to his A Wave collection.
One of those kinds of poetry that I didn't fully understand, Maybe it's because I was inspired to write so much while reading this that it is a close,/for me. The best kind of confusing, Every visit to Cape Cod, I try to read some Ashbery, Every time I am perplexed, The guy can obviously write extremely well, magnificent control, ambitious intention, huge and impressive wordhoard immaculately wielded, And still it all adds up to remarkably little, In the words of J, Ashbery, "His tangling so flummoxed him,/ all he said was "Boats along the way, "
I think I need poetry to say a bit more

to me than "Boats along the way, " Although I quite enjoy that as a phrase to take from maritime Cape Cod, Next year, the breakthrough. Now back to the unopaque wordcraft of Dylan Thomas, You know where you are with Dylan Thomas, A book of nonsense poetry, That's not a judgment just a description, This took me longer to finish than I expected, John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in, He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and he traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to France in, Best known as a poet, he has published than twenty collections, most recently A Worldly Country Ecco,, His Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror Viking,won the three major American prizes: the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an early book, Some Trees, was selected by W.
H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series, He has served as executive editor of Art News and as the art critic for New York magazine and Newsweek, A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he serv John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in.
He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and he traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to France in, Best known as a poet, he has published than twenty collections, most recently A Worldly Country Ecco,, His Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror Viking,won the three major American prizes: the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an early book, Some Trees, was selected by W.
H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series, He has served as executive editor of Art News and as the art critic for New York magazine and Newsweek, A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets fromto.
The winner of many prizes and awards, both nationally and internationally, he has received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was a MacArthur Fellow fromto, His work has been translated into than twenty languages, He lives in New York, and sincehe has been the Charles P, Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard, sitelink.