Most Popular Books by John Ashbery

And the Stars Were Shining, John Ashbery''s sixteenth collection, strikes out into new territory and engages the reader in unexpected ways. In their relative brevity they display all the valiant wit and rich lyric intensity which readers know from Ashberry''s expansive longer work.

This monumental work traces Ashbery''s work from the start of his career to his establishment as the world''s greatest living English-language poet. Beginning with Some Trees (1956), chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Prize, this volume spans a dozen of his most important collections.Ashbery supervised the publication of the present volume; he specified which variant readings he prefers, approved teh editor''s correction of a few unambiguous typographical errors, and advised about stanza breaks where it is not clear from teh original printings whether a page break is also a stanza break--Note on the texts, p. 1007.

The denizens of Kelton, New York - a bedroom community some fifty miles from Manhattan - are a well-heeled bunch who spend an awful lot of time playing rummy. There is Alice, an unfulfilled cellist, and her complacent brother Marshall, who doesn''t like his friends to confide in him. There are the bumbling and overindulged Fabia and Victor, another sibling duo, and their friend Irving, a meek mama''s boy. Into their cloistered lives come Claire and Nadia Tosti, two sisters from Paris, whose take-charge tactics stir the winds of enterprise, romance, and change. Through them, Alice is led to a swarthy Italian who helps her orchestrate a successful restaurant business. Irving pairs up with Claire, finally winning freedom from his eccentric, cat-loving mother. Victor embraces Nadia and the antiques trade, while Fabia discovers a potential romance with Victor''s French pen pal. Only Marshall finds himself eluded by love, a predicament that will lead him from the snug environs of Kelton to the crude energies of the Midwest. In bistros, galleries, bars, and theaters, the protagonists eat, drink, criticize each other, and debate the worlds of art, music, literature, life, and love.

Essays by John Ashbery, Constance Lewallen, Carter Ratcliff. Foreword by Kevin E. Consey.

Whether on a picnic blanket or a porch swing, the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in Tin House will help you while away the hours. Tin House is your literary companion for the dog days of Summer. Whether on a picnic blanket or a porch swing, the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in Tin House will help you while away the hours. Featuring new work from Miller Oberman, Michael Dickman, and Malerie Willens.

Robert Mapplethorpe''s reputation rests largely on a body of black and white sexual imagery, yet he was one of the most elegant still-life photographers. His flower studies, to which he sometimes referred to as his ''New York flowers'' are slightly poisonous and very sexual. This will be the most decorative of all the Mapplethorpe books.

This catalog features views provided by Swiss-American photographer Rudy Burckhardt.

Uno de los libros más importantes de John Ashbery, ganador de los premios Pulitzer de poesía, National Book Critics Circle y National Book. «John Ashbery es hoy, sin duda, el poeta norteamericano por excelencia. [...] Poeta del torrente de lo mental, poeta total en muchos sentidos, John Ashbery es un poeta de lo cotidiano en el interior de las mentes». Luis Antonio de Villena, Babelia John Ashbery fue el poeta estadounidense más influyente de su tiempo. Considerado por el crítico Harold Bloom el último de los canónicos, su obra ha permeado de manera decisiva en nuevas generaciones de poetas -no solo en el ámbito anglosajón- y sigue siendo un referente ineludible a la hora de juzgar la poesía de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Una ola, por el que recibió los premios Lenore Marshall y Bollingen, es un libro sobre la muerte y la memoria en el que Ashbery destila toda su maestría en el manejo de la metáfora, el poema de largo aliento e incluso la prosa. De cada una de estas piezas, espléndidamente traducidas por Ignacio Infante, emana un hipnotismo intenso que, como una bella despedida, resuena en la memoria con el eco de una melodía persistente. Reseñas: «Pocos poetas poseen hoy día su misteriosa habilidad para socavar nuestras certidumbres, para articular tan plenamente las zonas más ambiguas de nuestra conciencia». Paul Auster «John Ashbery es un gran poeta. [...] Sabe y quiere ser todos los poetas a la vez, como Whitman quiso transportar en la canoa del pecho a todos los hombres». Antonio Lucas, El Mundo «Un genio enigmático de la poesía moderna cuya energía, audacia y dominio ilimitado del lenguaje elevaron el verso norteamericano a cotas brillantes y desconcertantes». The Guardian «Uno de los poetas norteamericanos más importantes del siglo XX». ABC «Desde la muerte de Wallace Stevens en 1955, estamos en la Era de Ashbery». Harold Bloom «Un poeta cuyos versos burlones, delicados y conmovedores lo convirtieron en una de las figuras más influyentes de la literatura estadounidense de finales del siglo XX y principios del XXI». The New York Times

El mejor libro del poeta norteamericano más importante de nuestros días. Con más de ochenta años, John Ashbery es el mejor poeta norteamericano vivo, como demuestra Un país mundano, su libro más reciente, una secuencia de poemas donde, lejos de repetirse, sigue indagando en el lenguaje, abriendo nuevos caminos, creando nuevas figuraciones. Romántico y escéptico, surrealista y preciso, Ashbery nos da en esta nueva y destellante obra un nuevo testimonio de su sabiduría, de su valentía y de su insobornable exigencia.

Hailed by Harold Bloom as "America’s greatest living poet," John Ashbery has won every major American literary award for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A beloved and gifted artist, Ashbery takes his place beside Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane in the canon of great American poets. With Quick Question, a new collection of poems published in time for his 85th birthday, John Ashbery proves that his creative power has only grown stronger with age.

An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery—a prolific poet and art critic—pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library. This book places poetry by Ashbery (1927–2017), gathered from his later collections, in conversation with a selection of contemporaneous art writing. In addition, as Ashbery loved music and listened to it while writing, the “playlists” here present samplings of music from these same years, culled from his own library of recordings. Ashbery’s poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic, though, rather than writing a poem “based on” or “inspired” by the content of an artwork or piece of music, he engages with how the experience of seeing it and the artistic strategies employed offer ways of thinking about it and through it. Many observations from Ashbery’s art writing also provide keys to how we might read his poetry. Many recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical works that emphasize complex textures, disparate sounds, and disjunct phrases. Ashbery’s poetry similarly plays with a diversity of poetic textures and sudden turns such that a reader might construct multiple narratives or pathways of meaning. He rarely offers linear stories or focuses on evocative descriptions of a scene or object. In exploring this ekphrastic book project, the reader is invited to discover how, for Ashbery, these three forms might illuminate and inform one another. In Mónica de la Torre’s introduction, she explores the connection between the three muses of music, art, and poetry, and the ekphrastic experience of reading Ashbery.

The second volume of Library of America''s definitive edition, including the modern classic Flow Chart in a newly corrected text. Published for his ninetieth birthday, Library of America presents the second volume of John Ashbery’s collected poems, spanning a crucial and prolific decade in the poet’s work. The volume opens with the indispensable Flow Chart (1991), in a complete text for the first time. The other collections gathered here—Hotel Lautréamont (1992), And the Stars Were Shining (1994), Can You Hear, Bird (1995), Wakefulness (1998), and Your Name Here (2000)—show Ashbery perfecting the playful, cerebral style that has made his poetry a genre unto itself, highly influential and often imitated. Long an art critic and one of the shrewdest observers of the American art scene, Ashbery engages with the renowned outsider artist Henry Darger in the fascinating book-length poem Girls on the Run (1999), inspired by the exuberant, unsettling fictional universe Darger created. The volume concludes with a selection of twenty-six previously uncollected poems. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

To mark John Ashbery''s 70th birthday, Carcanet publish his first five books of poems in a single volume: The Tennis Court Oath (1962); Same Trees (1956); Rivers and Mountains (1966); The Double Dream of Spring (1970); and Three Poems (1972).

As We Know presents 47 lyrical pieces together with a long poem, Litany. Here, as in the shorter lyrics, is a revelation of the self''s progress toward identity--sometimes silence and solitude, sometimes through the cacophony of the modern urban world. --Viking Penguin/Penguin Books.