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Collected Poems: John Ashbery

1991-2000
  • ISBN-13: 9781784105259
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By John Ashbery, Edited by Mark Ford
  • Price: AUD $49.99
  • Stock: 6 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 26/04/2018
  • Format: Paperback (200.00mm X 124.00mm) 840 pages Weight: 740g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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After his spectacular early career, in which he became one of the best-loved and most controversial poets of his time, and his radical and productive middle years, John Ashbery continued effortlessly finding new directions in the 1990s and into the twenty-first century, writing playfully, inventively. His language is exquisitely attuned to mundane reality, transforming it. Here in a single, substantial, authoritative, and helpfully annotated volume are seven complete books from this crucial period, starting with Flow Chart (1991), a tour de force that shows Ashberys mastery of the entire orchestral potential of the English language, as Helen Vendler put it. It complements Ashberys earlier Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, offering a vision of the collective dream of everyday life that was our / beginning, and where we still live, out in the open, under clouds stacked up in a holding pattern / like pictures in a nineteenth-century museum. The poems range across Ashberys varied interests and obsessions - opera, film noir, French poetry, the visual arts. Everywhere is his boundless inventiveness, his pitch-perfect ear for American speech, his exuberant erudition. The book ends with twenty-six uncollected poems, among them Hoboken, a collage that pillages Rogets Thesaurus, and much else.

John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. His books of poetry include Breezeway; Quick Question; Planisphere; Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, which was awarded the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize; A Worldly Country; Where Shall I Wander; and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. The winner of many prizes and awards both nationally and internationally, in 2011 he received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, and in 2012 he received a National Humanities Medal, presented by President Obama at the White House. He lived in New York until his death, aged ninety, in 2017.

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