John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 (LOA #187)

John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 (LOA #187) PDF Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1598530283
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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 nuance of American speech, these are poems that constantly discover new worlds within language. This first volume of the collected Ashbery includes the complete texts of his first twelve books, including such groundbreaking collections as Rivers and Mountains, Three Poems, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1975), and Houseboat Days. It also features an unprecedented gathering of more than sixty previously uncollected poems written over a period of four decades, a rare treasure trove for poetry lovers. This volume is a landmark portrait of a modern master. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Collected Poems 1956-1987

Collected Poems 1956-1987 PDF Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN: 9781847770585
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1043

Book Description
This monumental work traces Ashbery's work from the start of his career to his establishment as the world's greatest living English-language poet. Beginning with Some Trees (1956), chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Prize, this volume spans a dozen of his most important collections.Ashbery supervised the publication of the present volume; he specified which variant readings he prefers, approved teh editor's correction of a few unambiguous typographical errors, and advised about stanza breaks where it is not clear from teh original printings whether a page break is also a stanza break--Note on the texts, p. 1007.

The Songs We Know Best

The Songs We Know Best PDF Author: Karin Roffman
Publisher:
ISBN: 0374293848
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
"A biography focusing on the poet John Ashbery's early life"--

Reported Sightings

Reported Sightings PDF Author: John Ashbery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674762251
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
America's great poet and art critic, John Ashbery, presents some of his most provocative essays on art. Ashbery has long been one of America's most important art critics--first for the Paris Herald Tribune and later for New York and Newsweek. Illustrated.

Houseboat Days

Houseboat Days PDF Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480459151
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121

Book Description
Is poetry the act of putting something together, or the art of taking something apart? Houseboat Days, one of John Ashbery’s most celebrated collections, offers its own answer Remarkable for its introspection and for the response it elicited when it was first published in 1977, Houseboat Days is Ashbery’s much-discussed follow-up to his 1975 masterpiece Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, and remains one of his most studied books to date. Houseboat Days begins with the moving, unforgettable poem “Street Musicians,” an allegory of artistic and personal loss that came ten years after the death of Ashbery’s friend and fellow New York poet Frank O’Hara. But while many of the poems in Houseboat Days are strikingly personal, especially when compared to Ashbery’s work from the 1950s and 1960s, the collection is less about the poet than about the act of writing poetry. In such widely anthologized poems as “Wet Casements,” “Syringa,” “And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name,” and “What Is Poetry,” Ashbery embraces the challenge of his own ars poetica, exploring and exploding the trusses, foundations, and underground caverns that underlie the creative act, and specifically, the act of creating a poem. Marjorie Perloff of the Washington Post Book World called Houseboat Days “the most exciting, most original book of poems to have appeared in the 1970s.”

Collected Poems in English and French

Collected Poems in English and French PDF Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802198449
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.

Collected Poems of John Updike, 1953-1993

Collected Poems of John Updike, 1953-1993 PDF Author: John Updike
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307961974
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 580

Book Description
“The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise—the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux.” Thus John Updike writes in introducing his Collected Poems. The earliest poems here date from 1953, when Updike was twenty-one, and the last were written after he turned sixty. Almost all of those published in his five previous collections are included, with some revisions. Arranged in chronological order, the poems constitute, as he says, “the thread backside of my life’s fading tapestry.” An ample set of notes at the back of the book discusses some of the hidden threads, and expatiates upon a number of fine points. Nature—tenderly intricate, ruthlessly impervious—is a constant and ambiguous presence in these poems, along with the social observation one would expect in a novelist. No occasion is too modest or too daily to excite metaphysical wonder, or to provoke a lyrical ingenuity of language. Yet even the wittiest of the poems are rooted to the ground of experience and fact. “Seven Odes to Seven Natural Processes” attempt to explicate the physical world with a directness seldom attempted in poetry. Several longer poems—“Leaving Church Early,” “Midpoint”—use autobiography to proclaim the basic strangeness of existence.

The Collected Poems

The Collected Poems PDF Author: Zbigniew Herbert
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060783907
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 628

Book Description
From the Publisher: Every great poet lives between two worlds. One of these is the real, tangible world of history, private for some and public for others. The other world is a dense layer of dreams, imagination, fantasms. It sometimes happens-that this second world takes on gigantic proportions, that it becomes inhabited by numerous spirits, that it is haunted by Leo Africanus and other ancient magi.

Selected Prose

Selected Prose PDF Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472031399
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time
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