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Ashbery

Master of probabilities, inventor of worlds poised before being collapsed into the real, hovering almost in a perpetual quantum state. Where are You ? Are you hiding in a fuzzy cloud of words, beneath a clever disguise of masks or have you simply broken yourself down into elemental parts and scattered them throughout the parallel worlds of your poems which, like crazy mirrors, stretch and strangely entertain the receptors in our dimensionally challenged brains.

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Date: 5/16/2023 4:22:00 AM
A thought-provoking perspective on John Ashbery, Paul.
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Paul Willason
Date: 5/16/2023 4:00:00 PM
A difficult poet to figure out...some if his poems are shere genius, others leave me cold. For me he captures the fractured nature of the modern mind, an entertainer, a playful performer. Not my favourite by any means but challenging. Regards

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