Friday, February 15, 2008

Tribe of John

How long till Ashbery feels like our Eliot? The poet who creates, then fits, the period's idea of what a poet should be so exactly that the new has to change its whole idea of the art to swerve around him?

4 comments:

Alli Warren said...

Not long at all.

Chris said...

I totally read that as "our Elvis" at first.

Katrina said...

so true, so true.

Johannes said...

right now.