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• “Paradoxes and Oxymorons” appears in Ashbery’s 1981 collection Shadow Train, which collects fifty poems, each consisting of four quatrains.
• In his interview with John Tranter in a 1986 issue of Scripsi, an Australian magazine, Ashbery discusses his own poetry and its relation to language.
• Bob Perleman’s 1996 book The Marginalization of Poetry discusses the politics of much contemporary experimental poetry, including Ashbery’s.
• Early criticism on Ashbery often labeled him a Language writer. Language writers is a name...
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