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Happy Birthday, John Ashbery!

July 28, 2022 by DAVID M KATZ in Ashbery

Reading an Ashbery poem requires greater inwardness than “the general way prescribed by our clockwork universe,” as he wrote. Instead, it requires, “sort of,” letting “things be what they are.”

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July 28, 2022 /DAVID M KATZ
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The Zen of John Ashbery

July 29, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Ashbery, John Keats, Zen, Dogen

To be sure, Ashbery’s frequently unsettling syntax doesn’t seem an exact match for such Zen Koans as “what is the sound of one hand clapping?” Yet his abrupt non-sequiturs do have a way of lightly shocking the mind out of conventional patterns of thought.

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July 29, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Ashbery, John Keats, Zen, Dōgen
Ashbery, John Keats, Zen, Dogen
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