Believing and espousing an American tradition alive in the testimony of Anne Hutchinson, in the prose-poetry of Thoreau, and in the music of Ives, Donald Revell's new poems seek moments of harmony between language and silence. The death of the poet's father and almost concurrent birth of his son for
Three poems
β Scribed by John Ashbery
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 62 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A provocative, challenging masterpiece by John Ashbery that set a new standard for the modern prose poem
βThe pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me,β John Ashbery has said of this controversial work, a collection of three long prose poems originally published in 1972, adding, βThree Poems tries to stay close to the way we talk and think without expecting what we say to be recorded or remembered.β
The effect of these prose poems is at once deeply familiar and startlingly new, something like encountering a collage made of lines clipped from every page of a beloved bookβor, as Ashbery has also said of this work, like flipping through television channels and hearing an unwritten, unscriptable story told through unexpected combinations of voices, settings, and scenes.
In Three Poems, Ashbery reframes prose poetry as an experience that invites the reader in through an infinite multitude of doorways, and reveals a common language made uncommonly real.
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