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    <body><![CDATA[Great Ashbery book, with over-the-top poems like the Divine Sepulchre, an amazing sense of humor, and more drama than he evokes later on. Brilliant lines, almost every one of them would make a great jump-off point for another poem. Here Ashbery is bright-eyed, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2581.Ready_for_Anything_52_Productivity_Principles_for_Work_and_Life" title="Ready for Anything  52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life by David Allen">ready for anything</a>, pure potential. No ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3846441">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, Ashbery's second, is one of the most important books of the last half century (post-1950), and it remains influential.  A hallmark of innovation and a new postwar tone that has come to be called the postmodern.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Think this is the most difficult work I've ever read.]]></body>
    
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