The Tennis Court OathJohn Ashbery John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their clashing interplay a structure of dazzling

in a tone that is at times sinisterly witty and at others ominously blithe

interessant

Through these travels and engagements

where he fed

Een tweeluik in proza en poëzie

Zijn veertig jaar schrijverschap vieren we met een aantal feestelijke uitgaven

voices speak who Melgard herself is not - or not yet - but who the poet operates in relation to becoming (potential parent

fame obsession

getuigenissen en vrouwelijke ervaringen en probeert in poëzie het ongeziene adem te geven

Made through research into Glasgow Women’s Library’s Archive Collections and Lending Library

and she waged a lifelong battle against depression

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