Dalen, Telemarken, Norway, c. 1890: photochrome print, Detroit Publishing Co., 1905 (Library of Congress)
"Blandishments, chitchat, jokes, parodies, personae and all kinds of slang circulate freely through Ashbery's (April Galleons) latest collection. As always, his work will frustrate readers who must know just what it's about. Curious and spectacular details no sooner come up than they vanish; distractions and even boredom have their places; and Ashbery's central preoccupations--passing time, the ambiguities of identity--are as ordinary as they are enduring."
amazon, TOM CLARK: Beyond the Pale
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