The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, Adam Kirsch

I read this in a review at Poetry Daily. It is probably the most acurate desciption of John Ashbery's poetry that I have ever seen, anywhere. I am going to have to check out this essay collection:

'To read this kind of thing [Ashbery's poetry] can be intermittently stimulating; to read it at great length, as one is generally made to do in any volume of Ashbery's, is mildly masochistic'; 'This is not nonsense as a computer spewing out words is nonsense; it is, rather, an evasion of sense'; and 'His verse is less like an eruption of necessary speech than an adjustment of the poet's mind to a certain frequency, whose signal is then transcribed voluminously.'