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  1. 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

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9hcDWq

    #JohnAshbery #FearOfDeath #NedRorem #NantucketSongs #music

  2. 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

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9hcDWq

    #JohnAshbery #FearOfDeath #NedRorem #NantucketSongs #music

  3. 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

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9hcDWq

    #JohnAshbery #FearOfDeath #NedRorem #NantucketSongs #music

  4. 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

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9hcDWq

    #JohnAshbery #FearOfDeath #NedRorem #NantucketSongs #music

  5. 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

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9hcDWq

    #JohnAshbery #FearOfDeath #NedRorem #NantucketSongs #music

  6. “Niet wát hij schreef, maar dát hij schreef, was Ashbery’s grootste zorg bij de totstandkoming van dit gedicht.” #poëzie #JohnAshbery
    tonvanthof.com/2025/02/11/met-

  7. the plywood years / john ashbery

    Here in the open, love lies apart,
    singing to its beads. How reflective is that?
    Don’t be such a goose, love said.
    They’ll tinsel you.

    They came after me and in the end I was a sot.
    They said on TV it didn’t matter.
    One fallen ice cube is left. The others go in.
    So it was on your conscience the hangover happened?

    You don’t want to call.
    Others than you are surfeited.
    Bobby Burns said a rose is like no other,
    neither is a lintel a blood-red reef.

    They came and sat on the pier next to me.
    I had piqued their curiosity
    just like in the old days.
    One spoke to a kitten. They shrugged.

    I hadn’t had the mirror experience in the hangar
    yet. Those were all days tumbling over me like water,
    like a scented caress. Then a bumble bee
    gladdens earth with its silver sound.

    We lived under tarpaper and ebony slats,
    dragging one’s feet across the floor.
    Oh if you’re going to then do it
    advised the eggbeater. Time got left out of the equation.

    *

    ‘Paris Review’, issue n. 188 (Spring 2009)

    #JohnAshbery #poem #poetry #TheParisReview

  8. From A Wave, the 1984 collection of #poems by #JohnAshbery:


    INTRODUCTION

    To be a writer and write things
    You must have experiences you can write about.
    Just living won’t do. I have a theory
    About masterpieces, how to make them
    At very little expense, and they’re every
    Bit as good as the others. You can
    Use the same materials of the dream, at last.

    It’s a kind of game with no losers and only one
    Winner—you. First, pain gets
    Flashed back through the story and the story
    Comes out backwards and woof-side up. This is
    No one’s story! At least they think that
    For a time and the story is architecture
    Now, and then history of a diversified kind.
    A vacant episode during which the bricks got
    Repointed and browner. And it ends up
    Nobody’s, there is nothing for any of us
    Except that fretful vacillating around the central
    Question that brings us closer,
    For better and worse, for all this time.

  9. From A Wave, the 1984 collection of #poems by #JohnAshbery:


    INTRODUCTION

    To be a writer and write things
    You must have experiences you can write about.
    Just living won’t do. I have a theory
    About masterpieces, how to make them
    At very little expense, and they’re every
    Bit as good as the others. You can
    Use the same materials of the dream, at last.

    It’s a kind of game with no losers and only one
    Winner—you. First, pain gets
    Flashed back through the story and the story
    Comes out backwards and woof-side up. This is
    No one’s story! At least they think that
    For a time and the story is architecture
    Now, and then history of a diversified kind.
    A vacant episode during which the bricks got
    Repointed and browner. And it ends up
    Nobody’s, there is nothing for any of us
    Except that fretful vacillating around the central
    Question that brings us closer,
    For better and worse, for all this time.

  10. @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.

    #JohnAshbery #poet #poetry #birthday #memories #remember

  11. @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.

    #JohnAshbery #poet #poetry #birthday #memories #remember

  12. @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.

    #JohnAshbery #poet #poetry #birthday #memories #remember

  13. “This Once,” #poem by #JohnAshbery from *Commotion of the Birds* (Ecco, 2016)

  14. “This Once,” #poem by #JohnAshbery from *Commotion of the Birds* (Ecco, 2016)

  15. “This Once,” #poem by #JohnAshbery from *Commotion of the Birds* (Ecco, 2016)

  16. #JohnAshbery #poetry #Ashbery
    A favorite from Commotion of the Birds, his last book: “Who Will Do the Kissing?”

  17. #JohnAshbery #poetry #Ashbery
    A favorite from Commotion of the Birds, his last book: “Who Will Do the Kissing?”

  18. #JohnAshbery #poetry #Ashbery
    A favorite from Commotion of the Birds, his last book: “Who Will Do the Kissing?”

  19. #JohnAshbery #poetry #Ashbery
    A favorite from Commotion of the Birds, his last book: “Who Will Do the Kissing?”

  20. "Such simple things, and we make of them something so complex it defeats us, Almost."

    #JohnAshbery

    “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

    #AlbertEinstein

  21. "Such simple things, and we make of them something so complex it defeats us, Almost."

    #JohnAshbery

    “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

    #AlbertEinstein

  22. "Such simple things, and we make of them something so complex it defeats us, Almost."

    #JohnAshbery

    “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

    #AlbertEinstein

  23. "Such simple things, and we make of them something so complex it defeats us, Almost."

    #JohnAshbery

    “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

    #AlbertEinstein

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. #7books

    #TheSonnets - William #Shakespeare

    #DonQuixote - Miguel de #Cervantes

    #LyricalBallads - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth

    Emily Dickinsons Poems - As She Preserved Them - #EmilyDickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller

    The Complete Poems - 1927 - 1979 - #ElizabethBishop

    The Complete Poetry Of Aimé Césaire - Bilingual Edition- #AiméCésaire

    Can You Hear, Bird? - #JohnAshbery

  28. nioques, frisbees e altre deviazioni / differx. 2021

    un cenno ai frisbees, di Giulia Niccolai, è anche nel microsaggio che ho dedicato a Carlo Bordini nel n. 76 del “verri” (giugno 2021).
    in quella sede ma anche altrove cerco — come sempre — di spostare la riflessione nella direzione del post che si vede qui di seguito:
    https://slowforward.net/2021/06/22/una-nota-di-jean-marie-gleize-a-margine-di-una-recente-lettura-al-cipm/

    quando si parla di postpoésie ci si può innanzitutto porre all’esterno del rigido circo dei generi letterari; e inoltre risulta del tutto legittimo parlare di qualcosa che implica e assume non soltanto altri abiti, forme, inflessioni, dimensioni, profili, ma infine identità: altri nomi. e idiomi. (si può e forse si deve dire che la dimensione idiomatica qui sopravanza tutte le altre).

    quali sono questi altri nomi? questi oggetti verbali non identificati?

    (non dico “nuovi”, dico “altri”). (anche se in Italia tutto sembra voler manifestarsi come nuovo, perché perfino la DC ha fatto in tempo a morire ma le forme dell’assertività letteraria ancora reggono).

    epiphanies (James Joyce 1900-1904), tender buttons (Gertrude Stein 1914), tropismes (Nathalie Sarraute 1939), notes (Marcel Duchamp, pubbl. post. 1980), nioques (Francis Ponge 1983, Jean-Marie Gleize), proêmes (Ponge), textes pour rien (Samuel Beckett), antéfixes o dépôts de savoir & de technique (Denis Roche), descrizioni in atto (Roberto Roversi), verbotetture (Arrigo Lora Totino 1966), bricolages (Renato Pedio), domande a risposta multipla (John Ashbery; e cfr. Alejandro Zambra, nel nostro secolo), mobiles o boomerangs (Michel Butor), visas (Vittorio Reta), postkarten (Edoardo Sanguineti 1978), sentences (Robert Grenier 1978), subtotals (Gregory Burnham), films (Corrado Costa), schizografie (Gian Paolo Roffi), drafts (Rachel Blau DuPlessis), esercizi ed epigrammi (Elio Pagliarani), frisbees (Giulia Niccolai), anachronismes (Christophe Tarkos), remarques (Nathalie Quintane), ricognizioni (Riccardo Cavallo), anatre di ghiaccio (Mariano Bàino), lettere nere (Andrea Raos), linee (Florinda Fusco), ossidiane e endoglosse e microtensori e “installances” (Marco Giovenale 2001, 2004, 2010, 2010), tracce (Gherardo Bortolotti 2005), prati (Andrea Inglese), diphasic rumors (Jon Leon 2008), united automations (Roberto Cavallera 2012), paragrafi (Michele Zaffarano 2014), incidents (Luc Bénazet 2018), sentences (Cia Rinne 2019), defixiones (Daniele Poletti),  avventure minime (Alessandro Broggi), développements (Jérôme Game), conglomerati (Andrea Zanzotto), saturazioni (Simona Menicocci), nughette (Leonardo Canella), sinapsi (Marilina Ciaco), dottrine (Pasquale Polidori), disordini (Fiammetta Cirilli), spostamenti (Carlo Sperduti), spore (Antonio F. Perozzi). E aggiungerei le frecce di Milli Graffi.

    senza contare le infinite modalità (perlopiù elencative) messe su pagina da Perec (le cartoline e le passeggiate raccolte nell’Infra-ordinaire, o le stringhe di Je me souviens). durante una conversazione, tempo fa Luigi Magno ha suggerito di pensare alle stesse cancellature di Isgrò come a dispositivi di questo tipo, oltretutto in forma di ponte fra la scrittura e l’arte. per tacere, in tal senso, delle innumerevoli soluzioni disseminate nel tempo da Emilio Villa: “cause”, “variazioni”, “madrigali”, “attributi”, “phrenodiae”, “méditations courtes”, “videogrammi”, “options”, “letanie”, “sibille”, “trous”, “labirinti”, “tarocchi”, … (tutte forme disperse come, già nel 1949, “i sassi nel Tevere”).

    #111 #AlejandroZambra #AlessandroBroggi #anachronismes #anacronismi #anatreDiGhiaccio #AndreaInglese #AndreaRaos #AndreaZanzotto #antéfixes #AntonioFPerozzi #AntonioFrancescoPerozzi #attributi #AvventureMinime #Baino #Beckett #boomerangs #Bortolotti #Bricolages #cambioDiParadigma #cancellature #CarloSperduti #cartoline #cause #ChristopheTarkos #CiaRinne #cognizione #conglomerati #CorradoCosta #Costa #critica #DanielePoletti #dépôtsDeSavoirDeTechnique #développements #defixiones #DenisRoche #descrizioniInAtto #differx #diphasicRumors #Disordini #dispositivi #domandeARispostaMultipla #dopoLaPoesia #Dottrine #Drafts #EdoardoSanguineti #ElioPagliarani #EmilioIsgrò #EmilioVilla #Endoglosse #entitàIdiomatiche #Epifanie #eserciziEdEpigrammi #FiammettaCirilli #films #FlorindaFusco #FrancisPonge #frecce #frisbee #frisbees #GeorgesPerec #GetrudeStein #GherardoBortolotti #GianPaoloRoffi #GiuliaNiccolai #Gleize #GregoryBurnham #ISassiNelTevere #idiomi #incidents #InfraOrdinaire #installance #installances #JamesJoyce #JérômeGame #JeMeSouviens #JeanMarieGleize #JohnAshbery #JonLeon #kritik #labirinti #LeonardoCanella #letanie #LettereNere #linee #LucBénazet #LuigiMagno #madrigali #MarcelDuchamp #MarcoGiovenale #MarianoBaino #MarianoBàino #méditationsCourtes #MG #MichelButor #microtensori #MilliGraffi #mobiles #NathalieQuintane #NathalieSarraute #Niccolai #Nioques #notes #Nughette #Osservazioni #ossidiane #PasqualePolidori #passeggiate #Perec #phrenodiae #Ponge #postPoesia #Postkarten #postpoésie #postpoesia #prati #proêmes #prosa #ProsaInProsa #RachelBlauDuPlessis #Remarques #RenatoPedio #RiccardoCavallo #ricognizioni #RobertoCavallera #RobertoRoversi #SamuelBeckett #SanuelBeckett #saturazioni #schizografie #scritturaDiRicerca #scrittureDiRicerca #scrittureSperimentali #segmentiTestuali #sentences #sibille #SimonaMenicocci #sperimentazione #spore #spostamenti #struttureLeggere #subtotals #Tarocchi #TenderButtons #teoria #textesPourRien #tracce #tropismes #trous #unitedAutomations #variazioni #videogrammi #visas #VittorioReta