
Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery
Poem Talk
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Isn't It Calmliness?
I'm thinking about code, how much code he's deploying in the poem to say something that he can't really say explicitly. The calmliness strikes me as at the mannered, the drag of manners we must wear to work our way through the regular world. But I what the the glad not to have invented such calmliness feels to me and I may be mispronouncing the term here. Is in a definition of cruising spots. In fact, aren't they arranged by chance? Yeah, exactly.
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