Selected Poems - (Penguin Poets) by John Ashbery (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Selections from the first three decades of the poetry of John Ashbery, author of <i>Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror</i>, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award</b> <p/>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." (<i>The New York Times</i>) This important volume gathers work from his first ten collections of poetry, from <i>Some Trees</i>, which was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series (1956), to <i>A Wave</i> (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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Contains Ashbery's greatest work and confirms his position as one of America's finest poets since Wallace Stevens." <b>--Edward Guerschi, </b><i><b>Newsday</b><br></i><br>"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." <b>--Michiko Kakutani, </b><i><b>The New York Times</b><br></i><br>"No other poet is as daring . . . None inhabits such a Versailles of the imagination. This formidable new volume offers the finest of his oeuvre." <b>--Carolyn Forche, <i>Vanity Fair </i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John Ashbery (1927 - 2017)</b> was the author of more than twenty-five collections of poetry, including <i>Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror</i>, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; <i>Selected Poems</i> (1985); and <i>Selected Later Poems</i> (2007), which was awarded the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize. Ashbery's honors included a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Foundation in 2011.
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