"Reticent, shy, unfailingly modern, Ashbery is as unorthodox [as] any of the great twentieth-century Breton, Stravinsky, Picasso," observed Jeremy Reed in Britain's Poetry Review . "We are privileged to be around at a time when he is writing." Flow Chart, a book-length poem that first appeared in 1991, might be Ashbery's greatest a staggering and exuberant "torrent of invention [that] comes as close to an epic poem as our postmodern, nonlinear, deconstructed sensibilities will allow... "
