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- W2932793721 abstract "Were it not for some wary yet bemused critics, who have praised its brinkmanship rather than its eloquent myth-making, Flow Chart has so far all but gone unnoticed. Much of a disconcerting experience, this long, idiosyncratic poem has more to offer. It is a quixotic if not hubristic validation of the meaningful insignificance of fleeting glimpses. A voyage out, it is the realization that non sequitur is the hallmark of thought and speech. Beyond the author’s typically unruly delivery, the reader is gradually made aware that language is ultimately paratactic rather than hypotactic, as it is mapping the delusion of a universal speech which would minutely register while experiencing. My aim is to show that this opus is not only another of the poet’s musical compositions or painterly artefacts. It reveals the pessimistic outlook of someone getting to grips with the radical alterity of reality. Indeed, the inconvenience of this method of paraphrasing existence, without, hopefully, much loss in translation, is that it annihilates any sense of actuality. It destroys the so-called referential illusion. The average reader could then object to false emotionalism; John Ruskin would find fault with the pathetic fallacy. Starting from Ashbery’s celebrated quirks of diction, I would like to enhance that notwithstanding his unremitting discontinuity, he shares the lyrical stance of uncensored forebears like Whitman, Ginsberg, or William Carlos Williams. Coming out with an “Instruction Manual” on the undecipherable uses of this world, he is, like Wordsworth, in The Prelude, musing on a “wandering cloud”. He yet gazes at it within himself instead of looking above. The poem is another self-portrait in a convex mirror. One’s bewilderment is therefore the upshot of the poet’s codification: an American epic, this is an ode to the disunion of the real thing. Syllepsis and aposiopesis are here nothing but the wordsmith’s quanta of solace. Flow Chart is an intense experiment in probing the boundaries of accepted literary practise." @default.
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- W2932793721 title "Slippery harmonies abound. The voyage out in John Ashbery’s Flow Chart (1992)" @default.
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