The Mooring Of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry

Ashbery, John

ISBN 10: 0880015470 / ISBN 13: 9780880015479

Published by Ecco (edition First Edition), 1997

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Synopsis:

Most critics would agree that John Ashbery is one of 20th-century American poetry's finest voices. Perhaps his most admired book is Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, a culmination of themes, styles, and forms with which the poet experimented over the course of two decades. Now, the poet's devoted readers can trace his development through the first five books of his poetry, collected here in one handy volume. The Mooring of Starting Out represents Ashbery's work from 1956 through 1972, comprising Some Trees, his first book; The Tennis Court Oath, written while he was living in Par

Review: "His poetry appeals not because it offers wisdom in a packaged form, but because the elusiveness and mysterious promise of his lines remind us that we always have a future and a condition of meaningfulness to start out toward. This book of beginnings takes us back to the mooring of John Ashbery's starting out, 'that day so long ago.' It contains a poetry whose beauties are endless."-- "New York Times Book Review""Ashbery's poems do not evade the real; they deny it the power to prevent other realities from being conceived."-- Paul Gray, "Time""This is the best possible introduction to the brilliant, difficult, and beautiful work of this poet."-- "Publishers Weekly""No one writing poems in the English language is likelier than Ashbery to survive the severe judgments of time.... He is joining that American sequence that includes Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane."-- "Harold Bloom""The chances are very good that [Ashbery] will come to dominate the last third of this century as Yeats dominated the first."-- "Poetry"

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Mooring Of Starting Out: The First Five ...
Publisher: Ecco (edition First Edition)
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Edition: First Edition.