Invisible Extra Colo(u)r

On John Ashbery

Like Wallace Stevens, whom he cites as a precedent, Ashbery favors picturesque titles that bear a quizzical relation to the lines that follow. If his poems were paintings, these titles would amount to an invisible extra color.

THE PLEASURES OF POETRY
By David Lehman
Published: December 16, 1984
New York Times Magazine

And so for day 1738
16.09.2011