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Zusatztext “Contains Ashbery’s greatest work and confirms his position as one of America’s finest poets since Wallace Stevens.” —Edward Guerschi! Newsday “Mr. Ashbery remains one of his generation’s most gifted and eloquent poets . . . He writes persuasively—and movingly—of the poetic process! of the attempts of the artist to wring order out of chaos.” —Michiko Kakutani! The New York Times “No other poet is as daring . . . None inhabits such a Versailles of the imagination. This formidable new volume offers the finest of his oeuvre.” —Carolyn Forche! Vanity Fair Informationen zum Autor John Ashbery Klappentext Selections from the first three decades of the poetry of John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award The late John Ashbery was a poet whose "teasing, delicate, soulful lines made him one of the most influential figures of late-20th and early 21st century American literature." (The New York Times) This important volume gathers work from his first ten collections of poetry, from Some Trees, which was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series (1956), to A Wave (1984). The 138 poems in this volume include short lyrics, haikus, prose poems, and many of Ashbery's major long poems, including "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," offering a beautiful distillation of the first thirty years of his remarkable, groundbreaking work. Zusammenfassung Selections from the first three decades of the poetry of John Ashbery! author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror ! winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award The late John Ashbery was a poet whose “teasing! delicate! soulful lines made him one of the most influential figures of late-20th and early 21st century American literature.” ( The New York Times ) This important volume gathers work from his first ten collections of poetry! from Some Trees ! which was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series (1956)! to A Wave (1984). The 138 poems in this volume include short lyrics! haikus! prose poems! and many of Ashbery’s major long poems! including “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror!” offering a beautiful distillation of the first thirty years of his remarkable! groundbreaking work. Inhaltsverzeichnis John Ashbery: Selected Poems From Some Trees Two Scenes Popular Songs The Instruction Manual The Grapevine A Boy Glazunoviana The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers Sonnet The Young Son Errors Illustration Some Trees The Painter And You Know He A Long Novel The Pied Piper Le Livre est sur la table From The Tennis Court Oath Thoughts of a Young Girl "How Much Longer Will I Be Able to Inhabit the . . ." White Roses Our Youth An Additional Poem Faust A Last World From The New Realism From Rivers and Mountains Rivers and Mountains Last Month If the Birds Knew Into the Dusk-Charged Air The Ecclesiast The Recent Past A Blessing in Disguise Clepsydra From The Skaters From The Double Dream of Spring The Task Spring Day Plainness in Diversity Soonest Mended Summer It Was Raining in the Capital Variations, Calypso and Fugue on a Theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox Song Decoy For John Clare Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape Parergon Some Words The Bungalows The Chateau Hardware Sortes Vergilianae From Three Poems The System From Self-Portrait In a Convex Mirror As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat Worsening Situation Forties Flick As You Came from the Holy Land Scheherazade Grand Galop Hop o' My Th...
