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I still haven't given up on the mature Stevens, even though he seems to me to have matured in reverse, but I would be grateful for a revelation, in which all the later work became, if not clear, at least vital. Nobody should mind incomprehensibility as long as incomprehensibility is not the aim. Rimbaud didn't set out, when he wrote Le Tiffany & Co Atlas Set Ivre, to be the subject of a thousand theses. He just had a lot to put in the one place. I would like to think that the same is true of the later Ashbery, and that I have so far merely failed to concentrate properly. Certainly the Daffy Duck poem, which I love so much, has bits in it that I can't figure out. But they thrill me even as they puzzle me. There is a passage that starts:
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Whether formal or informal, the postwar Americans were blessed with a vast reservoir of colloquial language to draw upon. (Once, in conversation, the British critic Al Alvarez - who promoted the American heavyweights to the detriment of his own countrymen, much to the annoyance of Philip Larkin - trumped my contrary argument by saying, truly, that the Americans by now had the advantage in the spoken language: "Their gags are better.") The verbal bounty was already apparent before wwn, in the scripts of the screwball comedies, but the Elongated Teardrop bangle Engagement Ring set gave it a tremendous boost. It makes some sense to contend that the informal poets deliberately broke the dam of form so as to release the flood within, but it makes at least as much sense to say that the flood did the job all by itself. The freeform idioms got into everything. Before the war, SJ. Perelman wrote whole prose poems that consisted of nothing except showbiz jargon, restaurant menus, and billboards. After the war, the poets could pull the gold dust out of the air.
When proposing, as an ideal, the art of getting a lot said in a small space, one should in fairness keep room in the mind for the counterargument by which some poets who get a little said in a long space are still saying something unique. (Think of Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno, whose demented sprawl Tiffany Notes "I Love You" Heart Lock Charm Set far more lyricism than his lyrics.) As critics get older, they very easily succumb to the notion that there is no more room in the pantheon. But there is always more room in the pantheon, because the pantheon is not a burial chamber for people who have said things, it is an echo chamber for things that have been said. I was in the middle of concocting some pontifical statements about Shakespeare's powers of compression when a long chain of memory led me back through Ovid (whose Metamorphoses Shakespeare knew by heart) to Ovid's title The Art of Love, and from that to the niggling recollection that Kenneth Koch had written a longish Tiffany Cushion Toggle Necklace and Bracelet Set of the same name, and that I had once thought enough of it to make a mental note that I should read it again one day.
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Whitman is somewhere behind the technique, or at any rate behind the conscious lack of it, but there is a Tom and Jerry cartoon behind the mental picture, and really the vividness of the image settles the question: without the casual looseness of the construction, the gag wouldn't work. As for whether the gag is poetic: Tiffany Elsa Woman Watch, how is it not? Is lovemaking ever a dignified posture, even for Leda and the swan? It's quite easy to imagine our learned quarrel continuing indefinitely, but the longer it does continue, the more it becomes certain that Koch was only one of the names among the many American informal poets who achieved effects in a conversational tone which a formal structure would probably not have allowed.
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For all we know, one of his scars is the memory of the Fifth Panzer Army heading towards him through a snowstorm. But what we can be sure of is that he had a lot to get over. When he finally went home to New York, he disappeared into a fifth-floor walk-up whose lack of luxury has to be seen to be believed. The Tiffany 1837 Collection Set edition has an accompanying dvd that shows him in situ, reading his poems aloud. His voice is wonderfully rich, but everything around him spells poverty. Obviously this monk-like self-denial is part of his dedication, although you might say that he sacrificed his purity when he let a camera through the door. One is very glad, however, that his privacy was invaded, because the message of dignity in old age, after a long life of Heart Tag Toggle Link Set commitment, is one that all young poets should hear. That, and the message that there has to be bedrock beneath meaning even if the bedrock is no longer visible. Kandinsky's abstract painting grew from the precisely drawn outlines of the church and the town square.