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Can You Hear, Bird: Poems by John Ashbery
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Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
After John Ashberry's Flow Chart (1991), Hotel Lautreamont (1992) and And the Stars were Shining (1994), this work provides an A-Y of poems, moments in which voices, images and tones come in for his attention. The poems are generally short, except for T when Tuesday Evening occurs. The poem begins in ti ...Show more
Collected French Translations: Prose by John Ashbery
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Category: Poetry
An essential, vibrant collection of masterful translations by one of the finest poets at work today Collected French Translations: Prose, the second volume in a landmark two-volume selection of John Ashbery's translations, focuses on prose writing. Ashbery's own prose writings and engagement with prose ...Show more
Hebdomeros and Other Writings by Giorgio De Chirico; John Ashbery (Translator, Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
The artist Giorgio de Chirico's novel, Hebdomeros is a dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book "the finest work of Surrealist fiction," noting that de Chirico "invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novel ...Show more
Selected Poems by James Schuyler; John Ashbery (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In Selected Poems, we experience the full range of James Schuyler's achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century's truly vital and distinctive poetic voices. One of the most significant writers of the New York School--which unofficially included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Ke ...Show more
Selected Poems: John Ashbery by John Ashbery
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Category: Poetry
During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W.H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. His startling work alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) playful and recondite, affirms poetry's power to astonish and tackle fundamental ...Show more
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by David Morley; John Ashbery
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Revered as the greatest living American poet, John Ashbery is celebrated for his humour and versatility. This edition celebrates the 30th anniversary of the publication of this collection.
Some Trees by John Ashbery
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Category: Poetry | Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets Ser.
A capsule of the imaginative life of the individual, Some Trees is the 52nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is "the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought in ...Show more
Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists by John Ashbery
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Category: Poetry | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
This book places poetry by Ashbery (1927-2017), gathered from his later collections, in conversation with a selection of contemporaneous art writing. In addition, as Ashbery loved music and listened to it while writing, the "playlists" here offer representative samplings of music from these same years, ...Show more
The Ice Storm by John Ashbery
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Category: Poetry
"…isn’t really a storm of course because unlike most storms it isn’t one till it’s over and people go outside and say will you look at that. And by then it’s of course starting to collapse. Diamond rubble, all galled glitter, heaps of this and that in corners and beside posts where the draft has left th ...Show more
The New York Poets : An Anthology by John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler
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Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
For the first time, "The New York Poets" gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. By the early 1950s all four were settled in Manhattan, collaborating, competing and encouraging each other's radical experiments wi ...Show more
Wakefulness - Poems by John Ashbery
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Category: Poetry
A collection of poems that recall, in their powerful transformations of language, the moment of clarity that arrives upon waking from a dreamOne of John Ashbery's most critically acclaimed collections since his iconic works of the mid-1970s, Wakefulness was praised in 1999 for its beauty and alertness. ...Show more
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