Flow Chart - Hardcover

Ashbery, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856359475 ISBN 13: 9780856359477

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Hardcover with clipped dust jacket, in good condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Rear upper edge of the jacket and board are notably rubbed in places. Boards are slightly marked, and page block head is lightly blemished. Possibly a presentation copy to a teacher as FEP is filled with signatures. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

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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"

Edition details

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856359475
• ISBN 13: 9780856359477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224