Ed Byrne on Ashbery, Pierre Martory and Jackson Pollock

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After I began translating Pierre Martory, that is, after I began to
realize that his marvelous poetry would likely remain unknown unless I
translated it and brought it to the attention of American readers, I
have begun to find echoes of his work in mine. His dreams, his
pessimistic résumés of childhood that are suddenly lanced by a joke,
his surreal loves, his strangely lit landscapes with their inquisitive
birds and disquieting flora, have been fertile influences for me,
though I hope I haven’t stolen anything—well, better to steal than
borrow, as Eliot more or less said.
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John Ashbery, quoted by Ed Byrne.
Click here for Byrne's essay on "John Ashbery, Pierre Martory, and Jackson Pollock."