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John Ashbery's Optional Apocalypse, Chris Nealon

http://vectors.usc.edu/ thoughtmesh/publish/172 .php — Created Monday, June 23rd, 2008
ThoughtMeshThis paper situates Ashbery in a certain New York 1970's, looking at the poems in Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror through the lens of the uneasy tail end of the post-World War II Pax Americana. I read the poems in the book as an elaborate staging <continued>