[John Ashbery’s] poems are not about anything, they are something, they are their own creation, and it would be fair to say that the world is, instead, a comment on them, a criticism of them.

—Richard Howard, Poetry, October 1970

Joel Brouwer takes a look at 100 years of book reviews in the back pages of Poetry.

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