There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

John Ashbery

About John Ashbery

Portrait of John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic.Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." Langdon Hammer, chair of the...

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