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But unlike a printed book, which is stable, an ebook is a shape-shifter

But unlike a printed book, which is stable, an ebook is a shape-shifter. Electronic type may be reflowed across a galaxy of applications and interfaces, across a variety of screens, from phone to tablet to computer.

Chinese Whispers - by John Ashbery

Chinese Whispers - by John Ashbery  . And in a little while we broke under the strain: suppurations ad nauseam, the wanting to be taller, though it‘s simply about being mysterious, . not taller, like any tree in any forest. Mute, the pancake describes you.

The child's game Chinese Whispers, known in America as Telephone, is an exercise in transforming the recognizable into something beautifully strange.

John Ashbery, "Chinese Whispers" from Chinese Whispers. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. Source: Chinese Whispers (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001). More About this Poem. More Poems by John Ashbery.

I was quietly reading the margin when the doves fell, it was blue outside. Perhaps in a moment, he said. The moment never came. Other people came and dropped off their résumés. I wasn’t being idle, exactly. MoreLess Show More Show Less.

John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential poet of his time

John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential poet of his time.

And in a little while we broke under the strain: suppurations ad nauseam, the wanting to be taller

And in a little while we broke under the strain: suppurations ad nauseam, the wanting to be taller, though it‘s simply about being mysterious, . It had tiny roman numerals embedded in its rim.

Chinese whispers : poems. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books.

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. You turn to your neighbour and cup your hand and say into his ear what you've heard. He does the same to a girl on his right. With each repetition the message gets a little further from the original intention. But as the intention recedes.

Chinese Whispers is Ashbery's 20th collection of verse, comprising 65 poems. The title poem of Chinese Whispers begins by cross-breeding two traditions: European surrealist painting and American diner cuisine. Some are more nonsensical than others. Ashbery is not usually so rhyme-led. Cumulatively, the poem achieves a certain catchy metrical verve - but Dr Seuss has nothing to worry about. It imagines an object banally reminiscent of Salvador Dali's floppy watches: "It had tiny Roman numerals embedded in its ri. It was a pancake clock.