Word: shoptaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shoptaw says Ashbery disliked that extremely modern "poetry with footnotes" or writing "that you had to bone...
...fact, Ashbery, whose writing career began post-World War II, was part of a trend towards non-representational art and music at the time, Shoptaw says. His poetry was unique in writing circles, however; contemporary poetry was largely "mired in describing ordinary experience, and especially ordinary suburban experience," Shoptaw says...
...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, 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...