On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On the page, John Ashbery's poems are often barely comprehensible. But
> when I saw him read them a few times back in the 1980s, they seemed
> remarkably transparent.
It never would have occurred to me that this was true. But I just listened to him read a couple on youtube and it was just as you say. What an Aha experience. Thanks! I think I'm going to listen to every recording he's made and then read them again.
Michael