The Towering Irrelevance

ecantwell:

Ad for Three Poems from the June 1972 issue of Poetry.

I think this picture of Ashbery rivals the Jeffrey Eugenides photo for Great Author Portraits in Literary Advertising.

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Don’t make John Ashbery drop his fence, grow a left arm, and come teach you about “Poems in prose”, sucker.

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   Classic Ashbery and his fuck-me eyes

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    I can’t even imagine recommending this book to people who “don’t ordinarily read poetry but enjoy outstanding prose”.

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    Don’t make John Ashbery drop his fence, grow a left arm, and come teach you about “Poems in prose”, sucker.

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