An essential, vibrant collection of masterful translations by one of the finest poets at work todayCollected French Translations: Prose, the second volume in a landmark two-volume selection of John Ashbery's translations, focuses on prose writing. Ashbery's own prose writings and 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 presents his ver...

“An entertaining and shrewd little book … Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur.” —Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the lesser-known writers who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work.John Ashbery was the quintessential “difficult poet.” When asked to explain his work, he typically responded by insisting that his poetry was its own e...

A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous bookRenowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to showcase Ashbery'...

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. Demonstrating his extraordinary command of language and his ability to move fluidly and elegantly between wide-ranging thoughts and ideas—...

Uno de los libros más importantes de John Ashbery, ganador de los premios Pulitzer de poesía, National Book Critics Circle y National Book.«John Ashbery es hoy, sin duda, el poeta norteamericano por excelencia. [...] Poeta del torrente de lo mental, poeta total en muchos sentidos, John Ashbery es un poeta de lo cotidiano en el interior de las mentes».Luis Antonio de Villena, BabeliaJohn Ashbery fue el poet...

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, objects and figures borrowed from art and literature, his work makes light out of darkness, playing with tone and style to show how even the se...

Primo poeta americano a vedere da vivo la propria opera raccolta e pubblicata dalla Library of America, John Ashbery è stato il riconosciuto maestro della generazione che ha esordito intorno agli anni settanta. Nel 1975 con Autoritratto entro uno specchio convesso ha ottenuto i tre più prestigiosi premi poetici degli Stati Uniti, presentando al pubblico un canzoniere complesso ed entusiasmante, evocativo, spesso onirico, ricco di riferimenti enciclopedici e reinvenzioni continue. ...

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 and even anarchic, in the end create by their clashing interplay a structure of dazzling brilliance and strong emotional impact. From this preocc...

Rörligt, elegant och melankolisktDagens Nyheternu har du chansen att försjunka i en ovanligt innehållsrik och skiftande diktbok som räcker hela livet.Norrbottens-KurirenI John Ashberys dikter finns ett tilltal som är både behärskat och besvärligt, både självbiografiskt och mystifierande. Det är lika intelligent som det är känslomässigtJönköpings-PostenDen läsare som första gången stiftar b...

El mejor libro del poeta norteamericano más importante de nuestros días.Con más de ochenta años, John Ashbery es el mejor poeta norteamericano vivo, como demuestra Un país mundano, su libro más reciente, una secuencia de poemas donde, lejos de repetirse, sigue indagando en el lenguaje, abriendo nuevos caminos, creando nuevas figuraciones.Romántico y escéptico, surrealista y preciso, Ashbery nos da en esta nueva y destellante obra u...

Mysterious, esoteric, baffling – John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous and charming, and responsive to his shifting social and political contexts. This biography charts his emergence from a minor avant-garde figure to the most important poet of his generation.In this entertaining account, Jess Cotton provides a legible and accessible map of Ashbery’s work that draws connections between the poetry, the New York ar...

A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous bookRenowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to showcase Ashbery’...