Booklist Liking Ashbery

"With a book every two years or so, this master of imagistic invention, compassionate wit, and linguistic magic expresses undiminished joie de vivre in the face of all that tests our senses of rightness and humor.  Nonchalant yet intense, surreal and exacting, bemused yet full of longing, Ashbery is a romantic and a skeptic, a stoic and a dreamer...conversational yet subtle poet...Ashbery's syncopated lyrics are sheer pleasure in their music, collaged images, stabbing perceptions.  Mysterous and truth-bearing poems that inspire us to 'flame on, flame on.'"

- Booklist - Review, February 15, 2007 Issue