A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics)
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In "A Serpentine Gesture": John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology. For Merleau-Ponty, perception is a process through which people reach outside of themselves for sensory information, map that experiential information against what they have previously encountered and what is culturally