With this volume, The Library of America inaugurates a collected edition of the works of AmericaA's preeminent living poet. Beginning with Some Trees in 1956, John Ashbery has charted a profoundly or
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 delight
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, philoso
A new collection of poems commemorating the 85th birthday of the National Book Critics Circle Award-, National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror offers
Breathlike Just as the day could use another hour, I need another idea. Not a concept or a slogan. Something more like a rut made thousands of years ago by one of the first wheels as it rolled along.
One of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading "in order to get started" when writing, poets he turns to as "a poetic jump-start for t
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, a
A collection of works by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet that includes "Some Trees," "The Tennis Court Oath," "The Double Dream of Spring," "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror," and "A Wave"
