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Most critics would agree that John Ashbery is one of 20th-century American poetry's finest voices. Perhaps his most admired book is "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, " a culmination of themes, styles, and forms with which the poet experimented over the course of two decades. Now, the poet's devoted readers can trace his development through the first five books of his poetry, collected here in one handy volume. "The Mooring of Starting Out" re...

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, and charts an exchange between experiment and the emergence of language poetry.

In Quick Question John Ashbery extends an invitation to readers to accompany him into the extraordinary worlds of the everyday, experienced through the box of tricks that is language. He revels in twist and transformation, the constant mutability of words and things: Whatever stops playing is the enemy of the incomplete. He can stop us in our ..

By the end of the book, Ashbery has laid out not only a course in contemporary poetics but a portrait of the artist teaching himself to become a thoroughly Modernist poet---in small bites, easy to savor, easy to digest."---"Los Angeles Times Book Review" "This is a marvelous book by one of our greatest poets. Reading John Ashbery's "Selected Prose" is like listening to a brilliant talker who not only keeps us entertained and laughing, but who ...

Whether on a picnic blanket or a porch swing, the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in Tin House will help you while away the hours.

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L a poesía de Ashbery se refleja a sí misma de un modo humorístico y melancólico, autocontemplándose como una vacilante crítica de las poesías referenciales y degradadas. El poeta disminuye nuestras expectativas de significación coherente al ofrecernos una y otra vez la lúcida zona en la que el sentido es fríamente autocrático, ya que sus esperanzas de encontrar un centro son sistemáticamente defraudadas. Leyendo a Ashbery percibimos cómo lo f...

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Loosely based on the illustrated novel by Henry Darger, John Ashbery's "Girls on the Run" creates a similar childlike world of dreamy landscapes, lurking terror and veiled eroticism. Its fractured narrative mode almost (but never quite) coalesces into a surrealist adventure story.

A book of poems by the world's celebrated poet.

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 he published up to 1984, this collection makes a wide range of this poet's writing available.

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With this volume, published in 2008, John Ashbery became the first living poet to have his work collected in the Library of America series. Beginning with Some Trees in 1956, John Ashbery charted a profoundly original and individual course that has opened up pathways for subsequent generations of poets. At once hermetic and exuberantly curious, meditative and unnervingly funny, dreamlike and steeped in everyday realities, and alive to every nu...

John Ashbery's most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award First released in 1975, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is today regarded as one of the most important collections of poetry published in the last fifty years. Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell called "one of the finest long poems of our period, " but throughout the enti...

A 35th anniversary edition of a classic work from a celebrated American poet who has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. John Ashbery's second book, The Tennis Court Oath, first published by Wesleyan in 1962, remains a touchstone of contemporary avant-garde poetry.

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