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Writing about him in the Times, poet Rae Armantrout reflected on how Ashbery’s down-to-earth humor manifested within his poems. “He is one poet who can somehow be simultaneously elegiac and playful, even goofy,” she wrote. “If you could find the impossible space where Franz Kafka overlapped with the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, John would be sitting there happily, grinning like the Cheshire cat.”
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Click here for more of Daniel Witkin's piece, "How Poets And Novelists Are Mourning John Ashbery" (from The Forward, September 3, 2017)..
See also "Remembering JA," which David Lehman wrote for The American Scholar. https://theamericanscholar.org/remembering-ja/#.XSqz15NKiM9