There is an error in line 3 of the poem by Paul Muldoon on August 16. It should be 'Asbury Park', on the New Jersey seashore, not 'Ashbury Park'. Muldoon, the great poet of layered referencing, is looking to reference the great coast-to-coast trips of, for instance, Kerouac, while Asbury Park references Springsteen because it was his early stamping ground. Line 5—"With that coast-to-coast billboard"—only makes sense with 'Asbury Park'. From Haight Asbury in San Francisco to Asbury Park in New Jersey.
There is an error in line 3 of the poem by Paul Muldoon on August 16. It should be 'Asbury Park', on the New Jersey seashore, not 'Ashbury Park'. Muldoon, the great poet of layered referencing, is looking to reference the great coast-to-coast trips of, for instance, Kerouac, while Asbury Park references Springsteen because it was his early stamping ground. Line 5—"With that coast-to-coast billboard"—only makes sense with 'Asbury Park'. From Haight Asbury in San Francisco to Asbury Park in New Jersey.