tag:bostonpoet.com,2009-10-18:/blog/public/johnashbery//2 2009-10-18T15:50:06Z The discussion of unusual poetry - especially poetry that is primarily evocative rather than literal, Symbolist, surrealist, or simply difficult to understand but in the Bloggers opinion, valuable. Movable Type 4.21-en tag:bostonpoet.com,2009:/blog/public/johnashbery//2.3 2009-10-18T15:47:57Z 2009-10-18T15:50:06Z

diana This is a call to generate ideas about incomprehensible or difficult to comprehend poetry.  It is our opinion that some poetry is not intended to be understood at all, yet it is not sheer nonsense.  Buddhist paradoxes also like this.  John Ashbery, a poet whose early work was inspired by French painting, is our patron saint, hence the name of our blog.

 

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