Introduction / David Lehman -- The prophetic Ashbery / Douglas Crase -- Fragments of a buried life : John Ashbery's Dream songs / Marjorie Perloff -- The metaphysical subject of John Ashbery's poetry / John Koethe -- The shield of a greeting : the function of irony in John Ashbery's poetry / David Lehman -- Ashbery's dismantling of bourgeois discourse / Keith Cohen -- The lonesomeness of words : a revaluation of The tennis court oath / Fred Moramarco -- Vision in the form of a task : the double dream of spring / Charles Berger -- Against monuments : a reading of Ashbery's These Lacustrine cities / David Rigsbee -- The brushstroke's integrity : the poetry of John Ashbery and the art of painting / Leslie Wolf -- Syringa : John Ashbery and Elliott Carter / Lawrence Kramer.
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