Jess Cotton's new volume in Reaktion Books' Critical Lives series is a knockout. It follows John Ashbery's life and work from childhood to death as well as his posthumous influence, thankfully concentrating on what Cotton in her introduction calls 'Ashbery's innovative, evasive, comic and confounding poetic forms' which, she goes on to declare, 'have reshaped [...] the American poem as we know it.'
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