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Author:	John Ashbery	Publisher:	Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10:	0374162700	Subject:	POETRY
ISBN-13:	9780374162702	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1999	Condition:	Acceptable
Special Attributes:	--

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Synopsis
Ashbery's 19th book of poetry is based on the paintings of outsider artist Henry Darger, who chronicled the adventures of little girls under attack by evil and violent enemy forces.
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Length:	55 pages
Height:	9.3 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
Thickness:	0.5 in.
Weight:	9.6 oz.

Publisher's Note
A book-length poem that is at once tragic and hilarious. Girls on the Run is a poem loosely based on the works of the "outsider" artist Henry Darger (1892-1972), a recluse who toiled for decades at an enormous illustrated novel about the adventures of a plucky band of little girls. The Vivians are threatened by human tormentors, supernatural demons, and cataclysmic storms; their calmer moments are passed in Edenic landscapes. Darger traced the figures from comic strips, coloring books, and other ephemeral sources, filling in the backgrounds with luscious watercolor. John Ashbery's Girls on the Run creates a similar childlike world of dreamy landscapes, lurking terror, and veiled eroticism. Its fractured narrative mode almost (but never quite) coalesces into a surrealist adventure story for juvenile adults. Girls on the Run is a tragic and hilarious poem, loosely based on the works of the "outsider" artist Henry Darger (1892-1972). For decades this recluse toiled at an enormous illustrated novel that recounted the adventures of a plucky band of little girls. The Vivians are constantly threatened by human tormentors, supernatural demons, and cataclysmic storms; their calmer moments are passed in Edenic landscapes that suggest both Little Nemo and the works of Le Douanier Rousseau. Darger traced the figures from comic strips, coloring books, and other ephemeral sources, and filled in the backgrounds with luscious watercolor. In Girls on the Run, John Ashbery has created a similar childlike world of dreamy landscapes, lurking terror, and veiled eroticism. The fractured narrative mode of his poem almost (but never quite) coalesces into a surrealist adventure story for juvenile adults.
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"Ashbery shows that we can feel for what we can't quite follow: GIRLS is frequently moving, and it sustains its emotional ballast whenever the scenes and tricks run thin." Burt "While the poem resembles a story, full of figures of fun..., GIRLS ON THE RUN is a nonstory. Rather, it's a jubilantly mannerist series of occasions....It's an unexpected supreme collection, a surrealist comic effort with panel after panel of loopy, glorious lines...." Toure

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0374162700
Title : Girls on the Run: A Poem
EAN : 9780374162702
Authors : John Ashbery
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
Publication Date : 1999-04
Pages : 55
List Price (MSRP) : 20.00
Height : 0.5400 inches
Width : 6.2800 inches
Length : 9.3200 inches
Weight : 0.5700 pounds
Keywords : Ashbery, John, United States, General, General AAS, 20th Century, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Acceptable

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