books.google.co.uk - John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Tennis_Court_Oath.html?id=UKXE7dzk8usC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Tennis Court Oath