Parallel Movement of the Hands: five unfinished longer works by John Ashbery ed. By Emily Skillings Isabel Bermudez It’s a shock to think

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Parallel Movement of the Hands: five unfinished longer works by John Ashbery ed. By Emily Skillings Isabel Bermudez It’s a shock to thinkParallel Movement of the Hands collects five long, serial poems (and prose poems) which John Ashbery left unfinished and will become part of his archive at Harvard University's Houghton Library.'In progress and realised' as their editor Emily Skillings puts it, these abundant poems are characteristic of the mature work of this American master, an adept of the glories of American speech, who is alert to its insinuating logics and its wild goose chases