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...Ashbery did write a thesis, on W.H. Auden, though he has always considered himself more of a poet than a critic. “I think of the two as opposites,” he says. “Writing poetry is striking out and finding something you don??t know yet, whereas criticism is dealing with something you do know about or are about to know about...
...Ashbery brushes aside these critiques as overly analytical. “I don??t think it’s difficult if one lets it approach one the way one hears music, just letting it wash over you,” he says. “My poetry is like music in a way—it comes and happens over a period of time and leads you into it. You kind of live it for a while, as opposed to, say, a picture, which you look at for a few minutes and walk away from...
...like John Cage and Elliott Carter. “I’m very disorganized,” he laughs. “I sort of imagine I’m going to write and put it off to the last possible moment, maybe late afternoon. Then I mostly don??t get around to doing it.” Some days, he doesn’t write a single word...
...want to see whites and Asians reach their full academic potential, but we also want to see even more rapid progress among underrepresented minority groups,” Ferguson said. “Our goal should be excellence with equity, but we don??t want to trade excellence for equity. Recent evidence suggests that we’ve made some progress on this long-term journey.” With the reauthorization of the No Child Left Act of 2001—which aimed to close the racial achievement gap—expected later this year, the Obama...
...seeks to portray these subjects realistically. “I read the incest as a metaphor for the things that are taboo in our own society, such as gay marriage and homosexuality in general,” Benowitz says. “Any kind of alternative lifestyle that people don??t understand, people demonize to such a degree when there are so many worse things going on in the world. [The play] bashes you over the head with its moral, but its process of doing so gives you a lot of options to interpret what you are seeing...