The name John Ashbery and modern American poetry are
synonymous. A founding member of the New York School of Poetry and a Pulitzer
Prize winner, Ashbery is crowned and celebrated as one of the great newer
American poets who have shaped the way we read and interpret poetic lines. In
2016, John Ashbery delighted his inner circle of readers with his final poetry
collection Commotion of the Birds. Although Ashbery had more than sixty years
in the business of poetry, these fifty-six poems ultimately disappoint. Unable
to take the current reader on a poetic, intellectual, or emotional journey,
Commotion of the Birds has an aura of déjà lu. In a rapidly changing cultural
and literary world, these poems are a relic of a bygone area. This study seeks
to place Ashbery’s final poetry collection within his oeuvre. While his
Eurocentric thematic focus will not grant him a place in tomorrow’s
multicultural academic canon, his homosexuality might.
Author(s) Details:
Hartmut Heep,
The Pennsylvania State University, United States.
Anita M. Vickers,
The
Pennsylvania State University, United States.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/PLLER-V4/article/view/13147
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