Flow Chart: A Poem - Hardcover

Ashbery, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679402012 ISBN 13: 9780679402015

Publisher: Knopf, 1991

Synopsis

A book-length, single poem charts the trials, everyday realities, and dreams of a life perceived through the act of self-reflection

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Review:

"From 'The Skaters' (1966) to 'A Wave' (1984), John Ashbery has produced a remarkable series of longer poems. But perhaps none is quite so various, so beautiful, and so new as "Flow Chart," a very long poem that recalls Wordsworth's 'Prelude.'"--Marjorie Perloff," The New York Times Book Review""This is what real achievement in a contemporary poet consists of: he has laid down guidelines and made his mark on the language of the tribe."--John Bayley, "The New York Review of Books""Flow Chart, Ashbery's magnum opus, is . . . the fullest demonstration to date of this poet's fascination with what Walter Pater described as 'that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.' . . . [Ashbery] is likely to be seen as the defining voice of his nation and time."--Robert Crawford, "Poetry Review (U.K.)""Flow Chart" is Ashbery at his most robust and determined."--"Library Journal"

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679402012
• ISBN 13: 9780679402015
• Binding: Hardcover