Reticent, shy, unfailingly modern, Ashbery is as unorthodox [as] any of the great twentieth-century creators: Breton, Stravinsky, Picasso, observed Jeremy Reed in Britain's Poetry Review, We are privileged to be around at a time when he is writing. Flow Chart, a book-length poem that first appeared in 1991, might be Ashbery's greatest creation: a staggering and exuberant torrent of invention [that] comes as close to an epic poem as our postmodern, nonlinear, deconstructed sensibilities will allow. . . .
- ISBN10 0856359475
- ISBN13 9780856359477
- Publish Date 26 September 1995 (first published 7 May 1991)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 5 December 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English