- New York Times reviewed, Poetry (poetic works by one author), American poetry
Chinese Whispers is the British name of a game called Telephone in America. According to a certain "Professor Hoffmann" in his book Drawing Room Amusements (1879), "the participants are arranged in a circle, and the first player whispers a story or message to the next player, and so on round the circle.
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Character-led, spare, contemplative and prestige.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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- Author
- John Ashbery
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 100
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Carcanet
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374528805
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John Ashbery, has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his Selected Prose, he characterizes himself as having been described as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry defies even the rules and logic of Surrealism." ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashbery
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