Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, & Ashbery by Helen Hennessy Vendler, a review from The Christian Science Monitor by Merle Rubin.
"Whether or not invisible listeners of the future judge Ashbery as great a poet as Whitman or Herbert, Vendler deserves credit for examining his work in the light of their examples, and in the process, illuminating us about all of them." Read the entire Christian Science Monitor review.