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Thoughts in Verse: The Poetical Musings of John Ashbery
Ashbery
is considered one of the most influential and controversial contemporary
American poets. Much of his verse features long, conversational passages
in which he experiments with syntactical structure and perspective, producing
poems that seem accessible yet resist interpretation. Roberta Berke commented:
"In Ashbery's poems there are constant echoes of other secret dimensions,
like chambers resounding behind hollow panels of an old mansion rumored
to contain secret passages (which our guide emphatically denies exist).
Ashbery both hunts for these secrets and tries to conceal them."
Although some critics fault Ashbery's works for obscurity and lack of
thematic depth, many regard him as an innovator whose works incorporate
randomness, invention, and improvisation to explore the complex and elusive
relationships between existence, time, and perception.
from "John (Lawrence) Ashbery." Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select. Detroit: Gale, Literature Resources from Gale.
Gale. SJRCC Library. 1 Apr. 2009 <http://www.linccweb.org>
 Notes
from the Air: Selected Later Poems - Publisher's
Marketing: "Winner of the 2008 Griffin International Poetry
Prize
His 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 National Book Award finalist "Where Shall I Wander." While Ashbery has long been considered a powerful force in twentieth-century culture, "Notes from the Air" demonstrates clearly how important and relevant his writing continues to be, well into the twenty-first century. Many of the books from which these poems are drawn are regularly taught in university classrooms across the country, and critics and scholars vigorously debate his newest works as well as his classics. He has already published four major books since the turn of the new millennium, and, although 2007 marks his eightieth birthday, this legendary literary figure continues to write fresh, new, and vibrant poetry that remains as stimulating, provocative, and controversial as ever. "Notes from the Air" reveals, for the first time in one volume, the remarkable evolution of Ashbery's poetry from the mid-1980s into the new century, and offers an irresistible sampling of some of the finest work by this "national treasure.""
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Call number: St. Augustine Campus Library - PS3501 .S475 N68 2007
Selected
Poems
Self-Portrait
in a Convex Mirror - - Eric Biggs