Volume 31, Number 10 · June 14, 1984
Making It New
By Helen Vendler
A Wave
by John Ashbery
Viking, 89 pp., $14.95
The figures traced in John Ashbery's rich new book have to do with death: in fact, A Wave has qualities of a last testament. The Angel of Death opens the book, appearing in a poem at once so ordinary and so literary that we read it with a pure transparency of understanding:
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