Ashbery’s Three Poems makes a surprising appearance in this Letter to the Editor about Novac Djokavic appearing in El Pais.
When you are not an example
Readers comment on the Novak Djokovic case, the role of culture during confinement, American politics and the harmful effects of technology on people
Repeat the mistakes of the past
After reading the interview with the illustrious and worthy Noam Chomsky, I immediately remembered a few words from the poet of the New York School, John Ashbery, who died in 2017. The author, one of the most influential of American letters, writes in the prologue to the book Three Poems (1972): "We are constantly fabricating our lives and personalities on the fly, in a way that Europeans do not practice. Fortunately, I think, we improvise."
It is clear, and after reading the interview even more, that today the United States is much closer to repeating old mistakes than improvising modern solutions.
Francisco García Castro. Estepona (Malaga)