Girls on the Run (poem)

Girls on the Run
First edition
AuthorJohn Ashbery
Cover artistHenry Darger - 'Storm Brewing'
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
1999
Publication placeUnited States
Pages55
ISBN0374162700

Girls on the Run is a long poem by the American writer John Ashbery, published in its own volume in 1999. The narrative centers on a group of girls known as the Vivians, who try to create an ideal world for themselves. The poem was inspired by the works of Henry Darger, a Chicago-based outsider artist who, among other things, collected street waste, compiled various catalogues, and wrote a massive fantasy novel.[1]

Reception

David Kirby of The New York Times described Girls on the Run as "a tank of literary laughing gas that exhilarates and confounds in roughly equal measure." Kirby wrote that "the excitement stays just below the level of video-arcade intensity, thanks to the anesthesizing influence of a narrator who is both wide-eyed and disembodied ...If Andy Warhol and T. S. Eliot had played with Barbies together, the result might have been something like the adventures of Dimples, Shuffle, Tidbit and the rest of the Vivians: theirs is a world of the eternal present, a place where the ordinary is nifty and vice versa, and any possibility of a tight ending scampers away into a candy-colored sunset."[2] John D'Agata reviewed the book in Boston Review: "There is an innocence to reading this new book that readers may have long felt the presence of in past books by Ashbery; but like the surreal physical landscape in this particular poem, it is an innocence that feels also long out of reach. Like Henry Darger's obsessive (some would say phallocentric) cataloguing of kinds of tornadoes, military ranks, flags of the world, or ways to kill a girl, John Ashbery's proclivities for lists, long sentences, and ambiguous grammar is a trademark system for distorting reality–but all in an effort to dig closer to the real. Indeed, as one critic recently called the poet's slippery tactics: 'It is a fear of death ... death without a comforting narrative for reproductive continuation.'"[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b D'Agata, John (2000). "Review: Girls on the Run: A Poem". Boston Review. 26 (February/March). Somerville, Massachusetts: Boston Critic Inc. ISSN 0734-2306. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  2. ^ Kirby, David (1999-04-11). "Girls on the Run". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-03-11.


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