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Girls on the Run
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Henry Darger, the prolific American outsider artist who died in 1973, leaving behind over twenty thousand pages of manuscripts and hundreds of artworks, is famous for the elaborate alternate universe he both constructed and inhabited, a "realm of the unreal" where a plucky band of young girls, the Vivians, helps lead an epic rebellion against dark forces of chaos. Darger's work is now renowned for its brilliant appropriation of cultural ephemera, its dense and otherworldly prose, and its utterly unique high-low juxtaposition of popular culture and the divine—some of the very same traits that decades of critics and readers have responded to in John Ashbery's many groundbreaking works of poetry.
In
, Ashbery's unmatched poetic inventiveness travels to new territory, inspired by the characters and cataclysms of Darger's imagined universe.
is a disquieting, gorgeous, and often hilarious mash-up that finds two radical American artists engaged in an unlikely conversation, a dialogue of reinvention and strange beauty.
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“"They danced, and became meaningful to each other. It was cosmic time, tasting of grit. If this is a mutual admiration society, why not?"
"It was like everywhere. It was just average."
I wanted more of this, and in this way the poem is lacking something great. It is a little all over the place, and does not seem to accentuate the loveliness of Darger's work. There is not much connection at all.”
About John Ashbery
's latest book of poems is
. From 1960 to 1965, he was the
art critic and
Paris correspondent. France has named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Officier of the Légion d'Honneur. He has received a National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and President Obama awarded him a National Humanities Medal.
and
's latest poetry book is
They have edited Ashbery's essays in
and in
, as well as his translations of Pierre Martory. She teaches at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; he is the director of writing at Pace University.
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