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  • John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1991-2000 (LOA #301) (Library of America John Ashbery Edition)

    • ASIN: 1598535358
    • ISBN: 1598535358
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    The second volume of Library of America's definitive edition, including the modern classic Flow Chart in a newly corrected text.Published for his ninetieth birthday, Library of America presents the second volume of John Ashbery’s collected poems, spanning a crucial and prolific decade in the poet’s work. The volume opens with the indispensable ... [Read More]

  • John Ashbery: Collected Poems, 1956-1987 (Library of America, No. 187)

    • ASIN: 1598530283
    • ISBN: 1598530283
    • Brand: Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    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, med... [Read More]

  • The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life

    • ASIN: B01N2JQ83E
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    The first biography of an American masterThe Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery—the winner of nearly every major American literary award—reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the la... [Read More]

  • John Ashbery: They Knew What They Wanted: Collages and Poems

    • ASIN: 0847860566
    • ISBN: 0847860566
    • Manufacturer: Rizzoli Electa

    Widely considered the most important poet in America today, John Ashbery creates collage both in his poetry and as visual art. This beautiful volume features Ashbery’s collage work in both media. John Ashbery is known foremost as a poet, but he has been creating collages for nearly as long as he’s been writing poetry. He began working in the m... [Read More]

  • Selected Poems (Penguin Poets)

    • ASIN: 0140585532
    • ISBN: 0140585532
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    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 AwardThe 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.”... [Read More]

  • Collected French Translations: Poetry

    • ASIN: 0374258023
    • ISBN: 0374258023
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    An essential, vibrant collection of masterful translations by one of the finest poets at work today Collected French Translations: Poetry,half of a long-awaited two-volume collection of translations by America's foremost living poet, surveys John Ashbery's lifelong love of French poetry. Beginning in 1955, Ashbery spent nearly a decade in France, w... [Read More]

  • Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems (Penguin Poets)

    • ASIN: 0140586687
    • ISBN: 9780140586688
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    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... [Read More]

  • Breezeway: New Poems

    • ASIN: B00P6U68LE
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    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 our most agile, philosophically complex, and visionary poets. In Breezeway, Ashbery’s powers of observation are at their most astute; his insight at its most penetrating... [Read More]

  • The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

    • ASIN: 0520201663
    • ISBN: 0520201663
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective. 

  • Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz

    • ASIN: 0811224325
    • ISBN: 0811224325
    • Brand: New Directions
    • Manufacturer: New Directions

    The publication of this book restores a missing chapter in the history of twentieth-century American literatureWith his New Directions debut in 1938, the twenty-five-year-old Delmore Schwartz was hailed as a genius and among the most promising writers of his generation. Yet he died in relative obscurity in 1966, wracked by mental illness and substa... [Read More]

  • The Mooring Of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry

    • ASIN: 0880015470
    • ISBN: 0880015470
    • Brand: Brand: Ecco
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    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 ... [Read More]

  • The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Program)

    • ASIN: 0819510130
    • ISBN: 0819510130
    • Brand: Brand: Wesleyan
    • Manufacturer: Wesleyan University Press

    John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated a... [Read More]

  • Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

    • ASIN: 0061367184
    • ISBN: 0061367184
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    This long-awaited volume, a new selection of his later poems, spans ten major collections by one of America's most visionary and influential poets. Chosen by the author himself, the poems in Notes from the Air represent John Ashbery's best work from the past two decades, from the critically acclaimed April Galleons and Flow Chart to the 2005 Nation... [Read More]

  • Commotion of the Birds: New Poems

    • ASIN: B01BKD8YKS
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    A crackling, moving new collection from one of America’s greatest living poets.In over twenty-six original books, the poems of John Ashbery have long served as signposts guiding us through the delights, woes, hypocrisies, and uncertainties of living in the modern world. With language harvested from everyday speech, fragments of pop culture, objec... [Read More]

  • The Best American Poetry 2013 (The Best American Poetry series)

    • ASIN: 1476708134
    • ISBN: 1476708134
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    Edited this year by beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns.Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase” (The Washington Post). This year, guest editor Denis... [Read More]

  • "The poem is sad because it wants to be..." quote by John Ashbery, laser engraved on wooden plaque - Size: 8"x10"

    • ASIN: B06XYZRQ2L
    • Brand: Mundus Souvenirs
    • Size: Large - 8''x10''
    • Manufacturer: Mundus Souvenirs

    "The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be." quote by John Ashbery Motivation and inspiration are what gets us out of bed every morning. To give you that drive and touch of magic that you need in your life, why not add some wise words to your home or office today. With the finest thoughts of the greatest minds laser engraved into ... [Read More]

  • The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, ... - John Ashbery quotes fridge magnet, Black

    • ASIN: B01MDN7PKU
    • Brand: PhotoMagnets
    • Manufacturer: PhotoMagnets

    The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. - John Ashbery Quotations from famous celebrities, politicians, authors, athletes and other prominent people. Find inspirational and motivational through this quote on a beautiful fridge magnet. You can choose between two different variation (BLACK - white letters on black background) or ... [Read More]

  • The Incredible Sestina Anthology

    • ASIN: 1938912365
    • ISBN: 1938912365
    • Manufacturer: Write Bloody Publishing

    More than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed, 39-line poetic form of six, six-line stanzas followed by a three-line stanza called an envoi, where words appear at the end of the line in a prescribed order, the sestina is a form of poetry that all camps agree can exist in a free ve... [Read More]

  • The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

    • ASIN: 0143121480
    • ISBN: 0143121480
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Penguin’s landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award (Dove) Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years i... [Read More]

  • John Ashbery Collected Poems, 1956 1987 by John Ashbery [Library of America,2008] (Hardcover)

    • ASIN: B00DWWJUIG
    • Manufacturer: Library of America,2008

    John Ashbery Collected Poems, 1956 1987 by John Ashbery. Published by Library of America,2008, Binding: Hardcover

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