
Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery
Poem Talk
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Is There a Parallel Between These and Poetic Speech?
"These are amazing, right? The kind of demonstrative pronouns, and then we return to these accents. And I think that juxtaposition is what's amazing then the poem," he says. "It seems to me that I'm holding up a piece of paper, let it be stipulated, and I'm drawing some accents." He adds: "There's a lot of painterly stuff going on there".
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