"SOME TREES, JOHN ASHBERY’S first regularly published collection, contains numerous poems that explore how the artistic consciousness relates to the world in which it finds itself and what that consciousness makes of the world it is given. In his examinations of how it feels to think, and of how thought and feeling interact with the world to make art, Ashbery is an heir of Wallace Stevens, whom he has called, along with early Auden and Laura Riding, one of 'the writers who most formed my language as a poet.'"
From Conjunctions: Only in the Light of Lost Words Can We Imagine Our Rewards Some Trees (1956) - Reginald Shepherd
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