What’s left to say after this seemingly endless campaign? (John Ashbery, August Kleinzahler, Joshua Mehigan, Mary Jo Bang and J. D. McClatchy answer, in poetry, in The New York Times.)
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What’s left to say after this seemingly endless campaign? (John Ashbery, August Kleinzahler, Joshua Mehigan, Mary Jo Bang and J. D. McClatchy answer, in poetry, in The New York Times.)
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I thought Mary Jo Bang’s was very fine, especially, “That slight tremor? … A violent past/walking through” and “Many ingenious lovely things/are gone” and the final line, although it took a couple of read-throughs before I thought I’d understood the smallest part of what she’s saying.
I love the beginning of John Ashbery’s but wasn’t set on fire by its ending, which seemed too abstract or something. I just didn’t connect with it.
The others were alright – competent, you know – but nothing in them made me catch my breath.