Rivers and Mountains - John Ashbery

"... Certain pervasive features in John Ashbery's work make their first appearance, full-blown, in Rivers and Mountains, which was published in 1966, four years after The Tennis Court Oath and the same number of years before The Double Dream of Spring. ('The Meandering Yangtze' is a line from 'Into the Dusk-Charged Air.') In the poems of this collection, and especially 'The Skaters,' Ashbery introduces a nonlinear associative logic that averts both exposition and disjunction. Ashbery's aversion (after The Tennis Court Oath) to abrupt disjunction gives his collage-like work the feeling of continuously flowing voices, even though few of the features of traditional voice-centered lyrics are present in his work."
The Meandering Yangtze, Rivers and Mountains (1966) - Charles Bernstein
Poetry Foundation: Rivers and Mountains - John Ashbery
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