What is the author's style in Paradoxes and Oxymorons by John Ashbery?

"Paradoxes and Oxymorons" addresses the reader, which is unusual but not unheard of in contemporary poetry. The use of the second person "you" is more common when used by the speaker to address another part of himself. Ashbery's poem complicates these two uses of "you." The reader can be both other people reading his poem and Ashbery himself as he reads along with it as he's composing. The conflation of "I," "you," and the poem at the end all contribute to the sense of playfulness and mystery in the poem's address.