Nyhedsanalysen
John Ashbery og desorienteringen
John Ashbery og desorienteringen
”Man hvirvler som et blad/ uden for og inden i regnen/ umuligt at forestille sig/ grusomheden, dog virker overbærenheden skrap/ mod os nu, al den planlægning./ Hvem troede de ville lade sig narre af det?”
Fra digtet ‘En mus’ (i Poul Borums og Niels Fransk oversættelse)
Den store amerikanske digter John Ashbery er død, 90 år gammel. New York Times er på pletten med en smuk nekrolog. London Review of Books har lagt et link ud til alle de digte, han har skrevet for dem gennem årene. Før sommeren, da Ashbery stadig kun var 89, lavede Publishers Weekly en (umulig) liste over hans 10 ”mest essentielle” digte. Og endelig anmeldte New Republic i juli den nye Ashbery-biografi The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life, som tager fat på digterens første 27 år på kloden.
(FILES): This file photo taken on February 13, 2012 shows US President Barack Obama presenting the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Medal to poet John Ashbery during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC. Pulitzer-prize winning poet John Ashbery, a post-modern American trailblazer, has died at age 90 in Hudson, New York, his family told US media Sunday, September 3, 2017. The experimental vanguardist was sometimes accused of writing poems that were at times less than accessible to a wider audience. Ashbery, who said he felt influenced by John Yeats, studied at Columbia University. The Rochester, New York native loved to mix everyday language and thoughts with elevated language. / AFP PHOTO / JEWEL SAMAD
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