Hotel Lautréamont (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Ashbery
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Imagination, Loneliness, Seasons
John Ashbery’s latest collection of more than eighty poems is a remarkable achievement, particularly because each poem is a formulation against formulation, an act of would-be meaning that resists coherence and meaning. The tentative quality of Ashbery’s poems is nothing new to his readers. This particular collection adds some new tinctures to the Ashbery oeuvre, something about the limits of an individual’s dream and the need to negotiate with others. These poems seem to reflect upon the difficulty of creating meaning alone.
Ashbery announces a number of motifs in the...
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