The Prologue of Bloom's "The Anxiety of Influence"

It's Bloom's. Have you read his latest? His best since Agon. That men in their 80's like Bloom and Ashbery remain at the forefront of their occupations with such vitality is THE artistic scandal of our times. The volume I refer to is The Daemon Knows--

>>9138864
Well Ashbery is amazing...gotta say from what I've read of his modern stuff (post-2000) I didn't really care for it. And I'm not someone who just idealizes earlier writings no matter what

>>9138774
Can you post the poem? Whos poem is it? or thats what you are asking

I found the source.

It's from the Gnostic writings, from the Gospel of Truth 22:27

>>9138864
>Bloom is 86
>Ashbery is 89
>Pynchon is 79
>Roth is 83
>McCarthy is 83
>DeLillo is 80
>Munro is 85
damn...

>>9138967
I'm in the throes of his selected later poems 'Notes from the Air' which spans '87-2005 which I couldn't stop reading over x-mas--- and it's a powerful volume top to toe. He has disappointed on occasion-- I felt completely indifferent, for instance, when undergoing the collection As We Know, which I believe is from the late seventies. But post 2005? Occasionally I'll see something in print but cannot recall being moved one way or the other so your observation is probably fair. I jumped the gun twice this post. Bummer.

>>9139218
×this thread, rather.