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Indeed, Ashbery's poetry remains recalcitrant even to his most celebratory of academic reviewers. John Shoptaw, one of Ashbery's foremost critics, has defined Ashbery's style as a "poetics of indeterminacy"-a euphemism, perhaps, for the poetry's intimidating lack of structural or thematic unity...
...Shoptaw says Ashbery's signature writing style, a voice simultaneously private and accessible, has influenced much modern poetry...
...Ashbery's latest collection, Girls on the Run: A Poem (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), epitomizes what Shoptaw calls "a move from the mature to premature...
...Shoptaw says he intends this in an acclamatory way. The book, he says, "is a lot of fun. The best thing about it is that it has late poetry by the elder statesmen of poetry but it doesn't have that high seriousness. It's not pretentious. It's full of adventures, and you just never really know what's going to happen from one moment to the next...
...Shoptaw says he is nonetheless a bit nostalgic for the Ashbery he was drawn to originally...