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Ashbery John : Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror(R/I) by John Ashbery
Category: Poetry
John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing explorat ...Show more
Collected French Translations - Poetry by ASHBERY, JOHN
Category: Poetry
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 1 ...Show more
Collected French Translations: Poetry by John Ashbery
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The companion volume to Collected French Translations: Prose, this book reflects John Ashbery's lifelong engagement with French poetry. From 1955 Ashbery spent almost a decade in France, working as an art critic, and formed a close relationship with the poet Pierre Martory. His versions of Martory's poe ...Show more
Collected French Translations: Prose by John Ashbery
Category: Fiction
John Ashbery is known as America's foremost poet, but his prose writing and his engagement with prose writers - through translations, essays and criticism - have had a profound impact on the cultural landscape of the past half-century. This book, the companion volume to Collected French Translations: Po ...Show more
Collected Poems 1956-1987 by John Ashbery
Category: Poetry
John Ashbery's "Collected Poems 1956-1987" contains the complete text of the poet's first twelve books, from "Some Trees" (1956), selected for publication by W.H. Auden, to "April Galleons" (1987), and including "The Vermont Notebook" (1975) with the original artwork by Joe Brainard, and "Self-Portrait ...Show more
Hebdomeros and Other Writings by Giorgio De Chirico; John Ashbery (Translator, Introduction by)
Category: Art and Design
The artist Giorgio de Chirico's novel, Hebdomeros is a dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book "the finest work of Surrealist fiction," noting that de Chirico "invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novel ...Show more
John Ashbery: They Knew What They Wanted: Collages and Poems by John Ashbery
Category: Poetry
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 medium when he was an undergraduate at Harvard, more than seventy years ago. Now, for the first time ever, this volume compiles a comprehensive selection of ...Show more
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery
Category: Poetry
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 Ap ...Show more