Three Poems [Mass Market Paperback]

John Ashbery (Author)

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The New Spirit
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• Mass Market Paperback: 118 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Classics (September 1, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140422234
• ISBN-13: 978-0140422238
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,977,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One never knows where they are (going) in an Ashbery poem., June 27, 1996

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This review is from: Three Poems (American Poetry Series) (Paperback)

_Three Poems_ is a journey of language itself; no
destination of intention or meaning. One experiences a
transparency--no mediation of form--of emotional states.
These Ashbery poems are linguistic potential, potentially
linguistic . . . nothing ever actualized by "saying".
Ashbery circumambulates the thresholds of silence to
collapse a medium shown to be inadequate to its content.
It is this particular work that forced critical theories
such as Deconstruction. These poems are not texts . . .
the best "language poetry" since Stein's _Tender Buttons_.