"You can't say it that way anymore," Ashbery declares, ushering into American poetry a fresh way of seeing and saying the world, celebrating "the extreme austerity of an almost empty mind".

艾施百瑞宣称；“你再也不能像那样子说话了，”指引美国诗歌到达一种新境界，去看、去谈论这个世界，庆祝“一种几近空虚的思想中的极端禁欲”。

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The ideal Ashbery reader is a foreigner or an extra-terrestrial: there can be no more liberating way of learning English than from these wacky, dandified samplings.

ECONOMIST: Modern poetry can be plaintive or richly idiomatic, or both

There is a sort of meeting of opposites between Mr Muldoon's pointed, intricate prestidigitations and the aimless yet alert shamblings of the veteran New York School poet, John Ashbery.

ECONOMIST: Modern poetry can be plaintive or richly idiomatic, or both

This is the drab, barely expressed misery that one finds in a lot of contemporary poetry Ms Olds is quite as influential in her way as Mr Muldoon or Mr Ashbery.

ECONOMIST: Modern poetry can be plaintive or richly idiomatic, or both