Article: Lyrics in periods of crisis. (On Poetry).(The Weather of Words)

SURREALISM and absurdism are hardly recent constructs, yet their fractured, mysterious landscapes--both like and unlike anything in our daily lives--seem characteristic of the artistic vision of our troubled era. The art of Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali or Marcel Duchamp; the poetry of T.S. Eliot, John Ashbery or Kenneth Koch; the novels by the Barthelme brothers or magical realists--all speak of a world in which people no longer feel at home. The familiar signposts have moved out of their customary locations, so they have ceased to point toward the destination we were seeking. But the markers that have replaced them still often trigger a well-known feeling. Their meaning ...

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