John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 (LOA #187)
Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: Hodder Christian Books
Published: 2008-10-02
Total Pages: 1080
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A definitive collection of works by the preeminent American poet.
Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: Hodder Christian Books
Published: 2008-10-02
Total Pages: 1080
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A definitive collection of works by the preeminent American poet.
Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 1043
ISBN-13: 9781847770585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0140586687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John Ashbery’s most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award First released in 1975, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is today regarded as one of the most important collections of poetry published in the last fifty years. Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell called “one of the finest long poems of our period,” but throughout the entire volume, Ashbery reaffirms the poetic power that made him an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. These are poems “of breathtaking freshness and adventure in which dazzling orchestrations of language open up whole areas of consciousness no other American poet as ever begun to explore” (The New York Times).
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780811211734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.
Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-09-09
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1480459097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A quintessentially American epic poem that rewrites all the rules of epic poetry—starting with the one that says epic poetry can’t be about the writing of epic poetry itself The appearance of Flow Chart in 1991 marked the kickoff of a remarkably prolific period in John Ashbery’s long career, a decade during which he published seven all-new books of poetry as well as a collected series of lectures on poetic form and practice. So it comes as no surprise that this book-length poem—one of the longest ever written by an American poet—reads like a rocket launch: charged, propulsive, mesmerizing, a series of careful explosions that, together, create a radical forward motion. It’s been said that Flow Chart was written in response to a dare of sorts: Artist and friend Trevor Winkfield suggested that Ashbery write a poem of exactly one hundred pages, a challenge that Ashbery took up with plans to complete the poem in one hundred days. But the celebrated work that ultimately emerged from its squared-off origin story was one that the poet himself called “a continuum, a diary.” In six connected, constantly surprising movements of free verse—with the famous “sunflower” double sestina thrown in, just to reinforce the poem’s own multivarious logic—Ashbery’s poem maps a path through modern American consciousness with all its attendant noise, clamor, and signal: “Words, however, are not the culprit. They are at worst a placebo, / leading nowhere (though nowhere, it must be added, can sometimes be a cozy / place, preferable in many cases to somewhere).”
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0802198449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.
Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1986-12-02
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0140585532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Selections from the first three decades of the poetry of John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award The late John Ashbery was a poet whose “teasing, delicate, soulful lines made him one of the most influential figures of late-20th and early 21st century American literature.” (The New York Times) This important volume gathers work from his first ten collections of poetry, from Some Trees, which was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series (1956), to A Wave (1984). The 138 poems in this volume include short lyrics, haikus, prose poems, and many of Ashbery’s major long poems, including “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” offering a beautiful distillation of the first thirty years of his remarkable, groundbreaking work.
Author: Frank O'Hara
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995-03-31
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780520201668
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective.
Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 0307555259
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kenneth Koch has been called “one of our greatest poets” by John Ashbery, and “a national treasure” in the 2000 National Book Award Finalist Citation. Now, for the first time, all of the poems in his ten collections–from Sun Out, poems of the 1950s, to Thank You, published in 1962, to A Possible World, published in 2002, the year of the poet’s death–are gathered in one volume. Celebrating the pleasures of friendship, art, and love, the poetry of Kenneth Koch has been dazzling readers for fifty years. Charter member–along with Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, and James Schuyler–of the New York School of poets, avant-garde playwright and fiction writer, pioneer teacher of writing to children, Koch gave us some of the most exciting and aesthetically daring poems of his generation. These poems take sensuous delight in the life of the mind and the heart, often at the same time: “O what a physical effect it has on me / To dive forever into the light blue sea / Of your acquaintance!” (“In Love with You”). Here is Koch’s early work: love poems like “The Circus” and “To Marina” and such well-remembered comic masterpieces as “Fresh Air,” “Some General Instructions,” and “The Boiling Water” (“A serious moment for the water is when it boils”). And here are the brilliant later poems–“One Train May Hide Another,” the deliciously autobiographical address in New Addresses, and the stately elegy “Bel Canto”–poems that, beneath a surface of lightness and wit, speak with passion, depth, and seriousness to all the most important moments in one’s existence. Charles Simic wrote in The New York Review of Books that, for Koch, poetry “has to be constantly saved from itself. The idea is to do something with language that has never been done before.” In the ten exuberant, hilarious, and heartbreaking books of poems collected here, Kenneth Koch does exactly that.
Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-12-17
Total Pages: 876
ISBN-13: 0520259262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume of the collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including 'Letters: Poems 1953-1956'.