
Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery
Poem Talk
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Is It Possible, I'm Sorry to Interrupt?
Roxanne Jones: I was thinking, the speech were still a performance. What if that rustling of leaves in that movement,. that combination of movement with the body of the tree and its multidimensionality, was in the poem being made? Made akin to the kind of language that humans use, right? And this is a non-anthropomorphic. Like he ain't making trees into humans. That's not the project of this poem. In fact, it's closer to making humans into trees, if you will, or sort of capturing the work of language. Is it possible, I'm sorry to interrupt. Go ahead.
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