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Praise for John Ashbery:
"Ashbery just talks, calmly and evenly, sifting through the verbal detritus of civilization and making fascinating sculptures out of what he finds."
- Time magazine
"No one writing poems in the English language is likelier than Ashbery to survive the severe judgments of time.... He is joining that American sequence that includes Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane."
- Harold Bloom
"Brilliant, difficult, and beautiful."
- Publishers Weekly
"[Ashbery] is ... a genius." - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Ashbery continues to inhabit a worldly country all his own."
- Publishers Weekly
"Among the poets of the New York School, Ashbery has been the most influential in opening up new possibilities for the American lyric. He has done this by enlivening the page with diction of a startling heterogeneity; by being more broadly allusive than any other modern poet, including Eliot; by being boyish and amusing while maintaining emotional depth; by finding a gorgeousness of imagery rare since Stevens; and by taking headstrong risks."
- New Republic
"Ashbery's poems do not evade the real; they deny it the power to prevent other realities from being conceived."
- Paul Gray, Time
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