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The Tribe of John Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry edited by Susan M. Schultz Introduction Susan M. Schultz AMONG CONTEMPORARY POETS, John Ashbery is at once the most consistent and the most various. It is a mark of Ashbery's pervasive presence that so many of the poets he included in The Best American Poetry, i988, which reprinted the hundred poems of the year that Ashbery most liked, sound like ...