In case you're badly in need of an Ashbery review

here is Helen Vendler...

'Ashbery's remarks, in 1966, comparing the didactic intention of the "committed poets" of the time to the imaginative gaiety of Frank O'Hara are equally applicable to his own work. He says of O'Hara's poetry that it :

''has no program and therefore cannot be joined. It does not advocate sex and dope as a panacea for the ills of modern society; it does not speak out against the war in Vietnam or in favor of civil rights; it does not paint gothic vignettes of the post-Atomic age: in a word, it does not attack the establishment. It merely ignores its right to exist, and is thus a source of annoyance for partisans of every stripe.''