John Ashbery (558 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Good. The first biography of an American masterThe Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery--the winner of nearly every major American literary award--reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters.Drawing on unpublished correspondence, juvenilia, and childhood diaries as well as more than one hundred hours of conversation with the poet, Karin Roffman offers an insightful portrayal of Ashbery during the twenty-eight years that led up to his stunning debut, Some Trees, chosen by W. H. Auden for the 1955 Yale Younger Poets Prize. Roffman shows how Ashbery's poetry arose from his early lessons both on the family farm and in 1950s New York City--a bohemian existence that teemed with artistic fervor and radical innovations inspired by Dada and surrealism as well as lifelong friendships with painters and writers such as Frank O'Hara, Jane Freilicher, Nell Blaine, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Willem de Kooning. Ashbery has a reputation for being enigmatic and playfully elusive, but Roffman's biography reveals his deft mining of his early life for the flint and tinder from which his provocative later poems grew, producing a body of work that he calls the experience of experience, an intertwining of life and art in extraordinarily intimate ways.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. The first biography of an American master.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The first biography of an American masterThe Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery--the winner of nearly every major American literary award--reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters.Drawing on unpublished correspondence, juvenilia, and childhood diaries as well as more than one hundred hours of conversation with the poet, Karin Roffman offers an insightful portrayal of Ashbery during the twenty-eight years that led up to his stunning debut, Some Trees, chosen by W. H. Auden for the 1955 Yale Younger Poets Prize. Roffman shows how Ashbery's poetry arose from his early lessons both on the family farm and in 1950s New York City--a bohemian existence that teemed with artistic fervor and radical innovations inspired by Dada and surrealism as well as lifelong friendships with painters and writers such as Frank O'Hara, Jane Freilicher, Nell Blaine, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Willem de Kooning. Ashbery has a reputation for being enigmatic and playfully elusive, but Roffman's biography reveals his deft mining of his early life for the flint and tinder from which his provocative later poems grew, producing a body of work that he calls the experience of experience, an intertwining of life and art in extraordinarily intimate ways.…

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PAPERBACK. (6 x 9 inches). Condition: Near Fine. xiv. + 354pp. xiv. + 354 pages. Cover art same as Stock Photo. REMAINDER mark along bottom cover, no bleeds. Later 18th Printing per print number line. A clean/tight/bright copy. Near Fine. Estate acquisition. Appears never read. REMAINDER mark along bottom outer edge, no bleeds. NO names or writings, NO cover wear or spine creasing.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Printing. Light wear to cover, damp stain along bottom edge of back cover and back end pages, small damp stain on bottom edge of index pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Pages clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers. 95 pages. Illustrated in color. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition "Jane Hammond: The John Ashbery Collaboration, 1993-2001" held at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, December 2001 - March 2002. Size: 10" x 10". …

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Paradoxes and Oxymorons". Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Study Guide for John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror". Book.