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work_aopevinn2rczvmki5sp3kv6du4	Ellen Levy	The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life by Karin Roffman	2018	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2652	141	64	The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life by Karin Roffman (review) The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life by Karin The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life. "The Thief of Poetry," "My Erotic Double," "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"—these Ashbery titles inevitably came to mind as I was writing the previous paragraph, still more evidence that this poet is always steps ahead of his the Ashbery who follows Wallace Stevens in conceiving poetry as "a violence reminds me, in turn, of Ashbery's self-revealing remark apropos the poems of Yet the pattern of social tensions that Roffman traces in the fluctuating facts of Ashbery's life also bespeaks a double existence, one that, in the crucible of the poetic sensibility, would transform into an imaginative dialectic. Crane, a poet whose influence on Ashbery, unlike Stevens's, has gone largely 	./cache/work_aopevinn2rczvmki5sp3kv6du4.pdf	./txt/work_aopevinn2rczvmki5sp3kv6du4.txt