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Girls on the Run: A Poem
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Girls on the Run: A Poem Paperback - 2000

by John Ashbery


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A book-length poem that is at once tragic and hilarious.
Girls on the Run is a poem loosely based on the works of the outsider artist Henry Darger (1892-1972), a recluse who toiled for decades at an enormous illustrated novel about the adventures of a plucky band of little girls. The Vivians are threatened by human tormentors, supernatural demons, and cataclysmic storms; their calmer moments are passed in Edenic landscapes. Darger traced the figures from comic strips, coloring books, and other ephemeral sources, filling in the backgrounds with luscious watercolor. John Ashbery's Girls on the Run creates a similar childlike world of dreamy landscapes, lurking terror, and veiled eroticism. Its fractured narrative mode almost (but never quite) coalesces into a surrealist adventure story for juvenile adults.

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  • Title Girls on the Run: A Poem
  • Author John Ashbery
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 55
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Date April 15, 2000
  • ISBN 9780374526979 / 0374526974
  • Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.03 x 6.02 x 0.32 in (22.94 x 15.29 x 0.81 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99018682
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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