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Girls on the Run: A Poem
by John Ashbery
Binding: Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
List Price: USD $9.50
Weight: 29
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 9.03 x W: 0.5 inches
ISBN 10: 0374526974
ISBN 13: 9780374526979
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A book length poem that is at once tragic and hilarious.Girls on the Run is a poem loosely based on the works of the 'outsider' artist Henry Darger (1892 1972), a recluse who toiled for decades at an enormous illustrated novel about the adventures of a plucky band of little girls. The Vivians are threatened by human tormentors, supernatural demons, and cataclysmic storms; their calmer moments are passed in Edenic landscapes. Darger traced the figures from comic strips, coloring books, and other ephemeral sources, filling in the backgrounds with luscious watercolor. John Ashbery's Girls on the Run creates a similar childlike world of dreamy landscapes, lurking terror, and veiled eroticism. Its fractured narrative mode almost (but never quite) coalesces into a surrealist adventure story for juvenile adults.

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