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Girls on the Run

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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 , 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 coalesces into a surrealist adventure story for juvenile adults.

Language: English

Pages: 55

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: April 01, 2000

ISBN: 0374526974

ISBN 13: 9780374526979

Girls on the Run

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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 , 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 coalesces into a surrealist adventure story for juvenile adults.

Language: English

Pages: 55

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: April 01, 2000

ISBN: 0374526974

ISBN 13: 9780374526979

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