Maurice Blanchot



‘a serpentine | Gesture’: The Synthetic Reconstruction of Ashbery’s Poetic Voice

In 1966 John Ashbery published Rivers and Mountains. The departure from the fractures of The Tennis Court Oath (1962) are immediately apparent: it is a return to a language still distinctly marked by Ashbery’s usual probing and misdirection, but without the direct dislocations committed to denotative meaning, form and syntax in the earlier book.

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