And the Stars Were Shining by John Ashbery
After the `monstrous, magnificent sprawl' of John Ashbery's 216-page poem Flow Chart (1991) and the further munificence of Hotel Lautreamont (1992), his sixteenth collection, And the Stars were Shining, includes a thirteen-part title poem which is a major achievement in American poetry, with the wise wit and heartbreak of Ashbery's urbane, unsettle imagination, subject to time's encroachments and the vagaries of the human heart. `He is quite simply,' The Times said, `the finest poet in English of his generation,' a generation that includes his friends Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, as well as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. He moves tradition forward with a deceptively casual style. Language is `a landscape sweeping out from us to disappear on the horizon', into which he moves with assurance, without fixed direction, finding a way. And the Stars were Shining includes fifty-nine poems marked by the valiant comedy and lyric intensity we have come to expect of Ashbery.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857540666 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857540662 |
| Title | And the Stars Were Shining |
| Author | John Ashbery |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1994-04-21 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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