/lit/ - Literature

>I do not "get" John Ashbery.
yeah me neither. i've read a good deal of him too. nothing ever clicked. the imagery isn't very inspired on its own and doesn't seem to amount to anything, and the lines aren't musical or atonal in the slightest. it's not even antiart. he's well received but who knows.

>he's more influenced by painters than poets; how can you trust him?
kandinsky was influenced by shoenberg. overlap of mediums and areas are generally a good thing. cp snow talks about poets using scientific language when scientism was the new thing, and maybe that's kind of what ashbery is doing but with pop culture and artspeak. i'd like to see more of that used in a different way.

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there is no reason to be upset.