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The Collages of John Ashbery

These were a welcome revelation to me – the collages of American poet John Ashbery – for their economy of images and the deftness of their poetics. So much of collage is grating, hard on the senses and purposely obfuscating – though it is frequently worth it, when it reaches something we can only know [...]

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