We Speak in Code of What We Love
Robert Potts reviews On Purpose by Nick Laird, Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney and The Harbour Beyond the Movie by Luke Kennard
There is a considerable intelligence and stylishness in his wry domestication of the beautiful swerves and non-sequiturs of Ashbery’s poems, plus a high degree of overt self-consciousness: several poems discuss and undermine their own procedures, or disarm potential criticism.
Their main charm, though, is that they are ? with their engagingly downbeat, faux-na?ve narrators ? genuinely funny.
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