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John Ashbery
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. Drawn from the work…
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A book of poems by the world’s celebrated poet.
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Jess Cotton
A biography of perhaps the most important poet of his generation, John Ashbery.
Career-defining collection of the most decorated US poet, timed to mark his 90th birthday.
Collects five long, serial poems which the American master John Ashbery left unfinished.
User’s guide - Editor’s note and introduction by Harold Bloom - A comprehensive biography of the poet - Detailed thematic analysis of each poem - Extracts from major critical essays…
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John Ashbery,Frank O'Hara,Kenneth Koch,James Schuyler
Gathers the work of four of the ‘first generation’ of New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. This anthology provides introductions to the poets’ work…
David Herd
John Ashbery is America’s greatest living poet. He is also greatly misunderstood. Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp - this book argues that the…
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Ben Hickman
A study of how we should read one of America’s most important poets
A must-have for the many, many lovers of John Ashbery’s poetry, this is the first book devoted to his collages and includes new, previously unpublished poems. It is for all…
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…
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A poetry collection by one of America’s greatest poets, John Ashbery. It speaks from the haunted, ambiguous cities of the twenty-first century.
On the heels of his National Book Award-nominated Where Shall I Wander comes a breathtaking book of new poems from John Ashbery.
This collection reveals, for the first time in one volume, the … evolution of Ashbery’s poetry from the mid-1980s into the new century –Back cover.
Takes the reader on a dizzying journey in the company of a virtuoso and sorcerer who makes the commonplace magical, disorientates and teases, and conjures glimpses of ‘horizons - bright…
A bold, striking new collection of poems from one of America’s most influential and inventive poets.
With more than twenty poetry collections to his name, John Ashbery is one of…
New collection of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize winning US poet.
The commotion of fifty-five new poems: Ashbery at his most vertiginous, witty, irresistible. ‘And the tenses, unstable, invite the past to move in on the present and future.
A moving new collection from one of America’s greatest poets, now in paperback.
For more than sixty years, the poems of John Ashbery have served as signposts guiding us through…
Still a touchstone of contemporary avant-garde poetry today, this 35th anniversary edition of John Ashbery’s second book celebrates an American poet who has won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book…
A landmark gathering of the first three decades of work by America’s preeminent living poet.
Hailed by Harold Bloom as "America's greatest living poet," John Ashbery has won every major American literary award for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the…
An anthology of poetry, drawn from all periods of the author’s work.
Passions, leaves, loves, flutes, insects, paintings, apologies, and partings, all feature in this collection of poetry by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Ashbery.
One of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading in order to get started when writing. Among those whom…
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…
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…
In this collection, fourteen essayists break new ground by focusing on a new generation of postmodern poets who are clearly indebted to John Ashbery’s work. This concentration on Ashbery’s influence…
John Emil Vincent
Approaches John Ashbery’s critically neglected poetry with an ear to his use of the supremely elastic pronoun you and an eye toward his construction of his books as books. This…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for John Ashbery’s Paradoxes and Oxymorons, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Elisabeth W. Joyce
Examines John Ashbery’s poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s conception of phenomenology. Elisabeth Joyce argues that this reflects Ashbery’s classic statement of poetry being the ‘experience of experience’.
Stephen J. Ross (Concordia University)
Stephen J. Ross examines the concept of nature in the work of John Ashbery. Through close readings of Ashbery’s poetry and critical prose, he reveals Ashbery’s work to be a…
John Shoptaw
In readings attuned to the textual, sexual and historical specificities of John Ashbery’s poetry, from Some Trees to Flow Chart , this text introduces readers to the poet’s processes of…
Oli Hazzard (Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of St. Andrews)
This book shows how Ashbery’s poetry has been centrally concerned with questions of national identity and intercultural poetic exchange. Through detailed close readings of his poetry, original interviews, and extensive…
John Ashbery,Monica de la Torre
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…
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Krystyna Mazur
The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analyzed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as…
A Study Guide for John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analysed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as…
James Schuyler,John Ashbery
The Tosti sisters of Paris, France, have come to the small, upstate New York village of Kelton for a change of pace. But when the pair enters the lives of…
These essays on writers, artists, filmmakers and the life of a poet provide insight into Ashbery’s evolution as one of the major poets in English.
Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time
A celebration of the first edition of Best American Poetry and a tribute to the late John Ashbery-the guest editor and one of the best American poets of all time-this…
Arthur Rimbaud
A preeminent translation of a defining work of late nineteenth century French literature.
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James Schuyler
