the importance to [John] Ashbery's career of his nine-year stay in Paris in the 1950s, when he lived with [Pierre] Martory and discovered the richness of modern French poetry. His fluid translations sound at times like a "lite" version of his own verse--which in his introduction he claims was something of a surprise: "I started to find echoes of his work in mine . . . though I hope I haven't stolen anything."from The Guardian: With eyes wide shut
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