Girls on the Run
A Poem
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Word Count
24,000 words, Guess
Page Count
96 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivegirlsonrunpoem0000john
- ISBN-100374526974
- ISBN-139780374526979
- Goodreads250370
- LibraryThing151251
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- Better World Books9780374526979
- Open LibraryOL7424459M
Classifications
- LCCPS3566.L27
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3501.S475 G57 1999
Description
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 for his work 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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