Flow Chart: A Poem

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"Reticent shy unfailingly modern Ashbery is as unorthodox as any of the great twentieth-century creators: Breton Stravinsky Picasso " observed Jeremy Reed in Britains Poetry Review. "We are privileged to be around at a time when he is writing." Flow Chart a book-length poem that first appeared in 1991 might be Ashberys greatest creation: a staggering and exuberant "torrent of invention that comes as close to an epic poem as our postmodern nonlinear deconstructed sensibilities will allow. . . . "