Selected Poems

John Ashbery

ISBN 10: 1857544129 / ISBN 13: 9781857544121

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, 1998

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: Esta colección de poemas de John Ashbery, considerado uno de los poetas más importantes del siglo XX, ofrece una amplia selección de su obra publicada hasta 1984. Los poemas abarcan desde las letras hermosas y sobrias de 'Some Trees' hasta el experimentalismo disyuntivo de 'The Tennis Court Oath', pasando por las poderosas meditaciones sobre la subjetividad de 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror' y 'A Wave'. Esta edición de Carcanet Press presenta una visión completa de la escritura de Ashbery, mostrando su capacidad para asombrar y abordar temas fundamentales. EAN: 9781857544121 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Otros Título: Selected Poems Autor: John Ashbery Editorial: Carcanet Press Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 348 Formato: tapa blanda.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857544129
• ISBN 13: 9781857544121
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Como nuevo

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Synopsis

During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W.H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. His startling work alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) playful and recondite, affirms poetry's power to astonish and tackle fundamentals. Drawn from the work he published up to 1984, from the spare, beautiful lyrics of "Some Trees" and the disjunctive, experimentalism of "The Tennis Court Oath", to the powerful mediations on subjectivity of "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" and "A Wave", this collection makes a wide range of this poet's writing available.

About the Author

John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. His books of poetry include Breezeway; Quick Question; Planisphere; Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, which was awarded the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize; A Worldly Country; Where Shall I Wander; and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. The winner of many prizes and awards both nationally and internationally, in 2011 he received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, and in 2012 he received a National Humanities Medal, presented by President Obama at the White House. He lived in New York until his death, aged ninety, in 2017.