Tag Archives: John Ashbery

John Ashbery, Tuesday Evening (1995)

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

In case after reading yesterday’s “The Dong with the Luminous Nose” you were wondering, like me, what “a long nonsense poem” by John Ashbery looked / sounded / felt like, here is Tuesday Evening She plundered the fun in his hair. … Continue reading →

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John Ashbery, The Dong with the Luminous Nose (1998)

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

The Dong With the Luminous Nose (a cento) Within a windowed niche of that high hall I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street The lights begin … Continue reading →

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