“. . . Just about all the contemporary poetry I like reminds me in some way of Ashbery, and Johnson is no exception, with lateral leaps aplenty, and the Ashberyean penchant for constructing sentences of perfectly ordinary syntactical relations and perfectly ordinary lexical items that nonetheless hover tantalizingly beyond the outstretched fingers of reference. . .”
For more, check out the blog, “Loads of Learned Lumber”:
http://loadsoflearnedlumber.blogspot.com/2009/03/paul-foster-johnson-refrainsunworkings.html
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