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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ashbery can in no way be misidentified as "autumnal," as a recent review in the Kirkus Review put it. Rather, it is a fresh voice from a master of contemporary avant-garde poetry, who has capitalized on the current trend toward the acceptance of a broader definition of free form verse...

Author: By John Ashbery, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads Modern Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Rather, it is a fresh voice from a master of contemporary avant-garde poetry, who has capitalized on the current trend toward the acceptance of a broader definition of free-form verse...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to the Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads American Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...analogies between keeping bees and raising adolescents are interesting. Both form highly developed societies that seem an alienated parody of our own. In both we glimpse, through the looking glass, intricate social lives and blind cruelty, the tendency to swarm occasionally, the secret language of waggle dances, the cliques, the stings, the feckless love lives of the drones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boys and the Bees | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

Such outcasts may someday form their own majority, if this trend continues. The pain and confusion of growing up, once considered the proper subject of gloomy poetry read under the blankets and angry rock songs rehearsed in the garage, can now mean a quick ticket to the doctor's office. And it doesn't take a lot of acting up for a restless teenager to attract professional attention. On a website sponsored by Channel One, a television network for school-age youth, a recent posting written with the help of the National Association for Mental Illness classified the following behaviors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Danger of Suppressing Sadness | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...showman, a star of films, a reviver of trends (youthful swing) and a sharp dresser besides. Given all his flair, a central point can get lost: he's also a masterly jazz performer. After a few ill-advised recent forays into funk and balladry, Connick here returns to form. Sure, the album could do without some of the slower numbers, but there's a lot to love--the sparkling title track, a rendition of Time After Time. Connick's vocals are deft and his piano playing fluid. A swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Come By Me | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

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