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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I mean, GOD. You know? So beautiful. But also Ashbery sizing up the same kind of moral question over and over a dozen times in the space of a poem, and with dozens of poems (including the formidable and exhausting kind of index of ideas in the title poem) it just wrung me utterly dry. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47506845">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=899">STOP SMILING interview</a> with poet John Ashbery<br/><br/>I GUESS IT'S ROMANTIC, IF YOU'RE A DOG<br/>By Greg Purcell + Fred Sasaki <br/><br/>(This interview originally appeared in the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.stopsmilingstore.com/issue32hollywoodlostandfound.aspx">STOP SMILING <em>Hollywood Lost &amp; Found</em> Issue</a>)<br/><br/>The famed New York School of poetry was a network in the F...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60323696">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of stuffy at times (overwrought phrases that create a sense of melodramatic tension, feels very academic). Doesn't seem to be innovative, but he does achieve some elegant phrasings in places. Then again, sometimes it all comes off a bit didactic, preachy, or what have you, which is never very g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19175583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know if I'm poetry-deaf or what, but this just seems like a bunch of words strung together for no reason other than to befuddle.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite poem in this book so far is &quot;Lithuanian Dance Band,&quot; possibly because the voice in it reminds me of the voice of Ashbery's poet-friend Frank O'Hara, whom I love; however, there are many more echoes of T. S. Eliot than of Frank O'Hara in this book, as far as my untrained ear can...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10456177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure what to say. As a volume, it left me feeling a bit befuddled. This might be a failing of the author or a failing of myself, and an inability to decode the complexities of many of these poems. There were some that I really enjoyed, that left me with strong feelings and more vague ideas a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50198958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror is def my favorite poem. It is a long poem about standing in a museum and looking at a drawing from 1524 by Parmigianino. The depths Ashbery reaches to deal with this artwork, though. It reminds me of the line in Nabokov's Lolita where Humbert is talking about the lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33780913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ashberry ingeniously and musically connects all the (superficially) disparate elements of the title poem, which I imagine reading and re-reading for decades to come.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm not crazy about ashbery but the long title poem of this collection is probably my favorite work of ekphrasis.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one won a Pulitzer Prize, with the famous poem, &quot;Foreboding&quot; and the great title poem. I have the mass-market-sized Penguin paperback, yellow with age. This book has always been an inspiring one for me, I've used it for cut-ups for ages, because the lines are so intricately constructe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3645278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Am I the only poet that DOESN'T like John Ashbery?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the classic books of Contemporary American Poetry.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a lot to like and not like here but overall, like.  A lot.  The title poem blows me away.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh. Not really in the mood...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. Wow. Wow. John Ashbery has never been able to top this book. Just one great poem after another. I must say that the cover design has gotten a lot better since the published the one I have. John Ashbery looks like a grade-a pornstar on the cover.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is only one John Ashbery. I feel compelled to re-read this book every so often, generally about once a year and I never fail to find something new. He's also one of the great readers, if you ever get the chance to see him read don't miss out.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this between November 2008 and July 2009. I think the book is historically important in the field of poetry and also fun to read and discuss and figure out what's going on in the poems.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Title poem comes at the end decodes (relatively) the formal intentions of all the earlier ones. He's splitting the difference between lyricism and experimental form to the detriment of both. ]]></body>
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