The Tennis Court Oath Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine singing—as a ‘battered woman’ from

singing—as a ‘battered woman’ from a working-class neighborhood

'Emily Skillings throws you a lot of curves and I like that

the ingenuous and the vatic

where familiarity meets strangeness and despair becomes a kind of celebration

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The Tennis Court Oath Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine singing—as a ‘battered woman’ fromJohn Ashbery John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their clashing interplay a structure of dazzling