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An episode of a poetry podcast made me upset, so I wrote a lot of words.
"on difficult poetry (oliver, gilbert, ashbery)"
https://nearerandfarther.com/posts/2026/08/on-difficult-poetry-oliver-gilbert-ashbery/
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This episode of the New Yorker Poetry podcast, where April Bernard reads John Ashbery's "A Worldly Country," has an extended conversation on "the pleasure of difficulty" (in Bernard's words), and I think it's just great.
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/poetry/april-bernard-reads-john-ashbery
It strikes me as just a really good guide to approaching "difficult" art in general, or why one might want to bother. I'm revisiting it for a blog post about difficult poetry and I'm liking it even more today than I did when I listened back in February.
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And the air pours in with piano notes
In its skirts, as though to say, “Look, John,
I’ve brought these and these”—that is,
A few Beethovens, some, Brahmses,
A few choice Poulenc notes. . .#WeatherStormASongOrPoem #HashtagGames
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“Wel koortsige opgewondenheid, verzameldrift.” #dagboek #poëzie #JohnAshbery #DonaldTrump
https://tonvanthof.com/2025/02/06/06-02-205/ -
𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
Highlights of my planned reading for April 2024!
#literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #poetrymonth #milton #paradiselost #ghostworld #danielclowes #williamgibson #patternrecognition #delete #viktormayerschonberger #javiermarias #aheartsowhite #johnashbery #breezeway #markgreif #againsteverything #jerusalem #alanmoore #theoriesofinternationalpoliticsandzombies
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@johnlink142
listening to this was the perfect way to end a day which would have been the birthday of John Ashbery.
Poet yes, but also tale-teller and word-weaver.
Saddest is the realisation that had he lived he would not yet even be a hundred years upon this earth. -
“This Once,” #poem by #JohnAshbery from *Commotion of the Birds* (Ecco, 2016)
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#JohnAshbery reads his poem “Paradoxes and Oxymorons” (from the amazing #PennSound library)
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#JohnAshbery #poetry #Ashbery
A favorite from Commotion of the Birds, his last book: “Who Will Do the Kissing?” -
"Such simple things, and we make of them something so complex it defeats us, Almost."
“Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
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Jess Cotton's superb critical biography of John Ashbery, which I commissioned, is out in April and available for pre-order from Reaktion Books. Grateful for generous endorsements from Mark Ford and Jeremy Noel-Tod. #johnashbery #poetry #literature
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@liederabend
John Ashbery’s poem “Fear of Death” from Ned Rorem’s song cycle “The Nantucket Songs”.#Rorem #NedRorem #ArtSong #TheNantucketSongs #FearOfDeath #music #JohnAshbery
