Abstract

When Koch showed the book to friends and fellow poets back in America, they were astounded. Ashbery in particular felt an immediate rapport with the eccentric genius (Lehman 148), even though he did not understand French very well. Soon after this first encounter, Ashbery reports that he decided to go to France and learn the language better, if only to find out what [the poem] could possibly be about (Other Traditions 46).1 While in France, Ashbery's enthusiasm for Roussel led him to study the French writer and his body of work in depth. And over time, he has become Roussel's most important American advocate.

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