of that kind of self-regard, which it has replaced with an even better, more archaic form of self-regard: alienation and self-loathing. This is actually a promising development. For all its proclaimed devotion to negativity, the poetic avant-garde has until now had no curmudgeon with the charm or persistence of a Philip Larkin or Dorothy Parker. In the twilight of what our major critics agree is "the Age of Ashbery," genial surrealism has gradually replaced grand mania as the period style (a shift that tracks the change in Ashbery's manner over his past seven books).
from The Nation: Happy Thoughts!: The Poetry of Kevin Davies
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