Volume 47, Number 19 · November 30, 2000
Tragicomic Soup
By Charles Simic
Your Name Here
by John Ashbery
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 127 pp., $23.00
Other Traditions
the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, by John Ashbery
Harvard University Press, 168 pp., $22.95
Depending on what critic one happens to read, John Ashbery is either our finest, most innovative poet of the last thirty years or he is simply just another shameless purveyor of incomprehensible, self-indulgent nonsense. There's no doubt that he is as influential today as Eliot or Lowell were in their day. In my own case, reading him over these many years, I must have learned a thing or two along the way.
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