num_pages: 224
description: "Reticent, shy, unfailingly modern, Ashbery is as unorthodox [as] any of the great twentieth-century Breton, Stravinsky, Picasso," observed Jeremy Reed in Britain's 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 Ashbery's greatest a staggering and exuberant "torrent of invention [that] comes as close to an epic poem as our postmodern, nonlinear, deconstructed sensibilities will allow. . . . "
language: English
title: Flow Chart
titlecomplete: Flow Chart
genres: American, Poetry, 20th Century, Literature
ratings_count: 249
publisher: The Noonday Press