The Only Alphabet
August Kleinzahler: Ashbery’s Early Life, 21 September 2017
The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life
by Karin Roffman.
Farrar, Straus, 316 pp., £25.50, June 2017,978 0 374 29384 0 Show More
by Karin Roffman.
Farrar, Straus, 316 pp., £25.50, June 2017,
“... five stanzas, ending with a cleverly ironic twist. His aunt Jane sent the poem to her cousin Elizabeth Sherwood Rinehart, who passed it to her mother-in-law, Mary Roberts Rinehart, a popular mystery writer. Ashbery was told his poem had received ‘great acclaim’. Having thus conquered the realm of poetry, for the ... ”