Collected Poems, 1956–1987: „Ashbery is the opposite of a regionalist. By virtue of growing up in a place that might have been anywhere, that felt like nowhere, his America is a set of ideas (or as he writes in another context, „ideas about thoughts“). His New York is an abstracted nowhere, merely „a logarithm/Of other cities“: how different indeed from the minutely enumerated city of his friends Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler.“ [#]
