AUTHOR: John Ashbery
READ: December-January (ABANDONED 2/3)
THOUGHTS: Another abandoned book! In 2012 I will not have mercy. Ashbery is really hit or miss with me. His obfuscation is sometimes alluring, sometimes frustrating, sometimes boring. I really only liked a handful of the poems I read, and of the ones I liked I barely remember most. The experience of reading them was enjoyable, though no content was gleaned. Like, a guided hallucinatory drug experience through an imaginary place where you can only remember the emotions you felt as you were going through, and nothing of the terrain. I really wanted to read Self Portrait In A Convex Mirror, but after reading this and Some Trees I was Ashbery'ed out. Sorry bro!!
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