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Nov. 18th, 2008 02:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionBack to Borges. Genealogical observations:
The lottery in babylon -> Crying of Lot 49
The circular ruins -> Little, Big
Also is Ashbery completely obsessed with Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came or what? Probably assimilated to Before the Law and Kafka's imperial messenger parable. And to Bishop's progress-of-life poems, like The End of March, Five Flights Up and The Moose. With a little of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty cropping up here and there.
And of course all that Stevens and middle period Whitman. I wonder what people make of him who aren't familiar with at least some of those. Maybe he reads the better for it? Julie finds him fun and she's usually suspicious of poetry.
The lottery in babylon -> Crying of Lot 49
The circular ruins -> Little, Big
Also is Ashbery completely obsessed with Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came or what? Probably assimilated to Before the Law and Kafka's imperial messenger parable. And to Bishop's progress-of-life poems, like The End of March, Five Flights Up and The Moose. With a little of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty cropping up here and there.
And of course all that Stevens and middle period Whitman. I wonder what people make of him who aren't familiar with at least some of those. Maybe he reads the better for it? Julie finds him fun and she's usually suspicious of poetry.
