April Galleons: Poems - Softcover

Ashbery, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374525889 ISBN 13: 9780374525880

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999

Synopsis

In this collection, first published in 1987, John Ashbery--"one of his generation's most gifted and eloquent poets" (Michuko Kakutani, The New York Times)--offers some of his most intimate and direct poems. With breathtaking freshness, he writes of mutability, of the passage of time, and of growth, decay, and death as they are reflected in both ourselves and the changing of the seasons. By turns playful, melancholy, and mysterious, the poems in April Galleons reaffirm the extraordinary powers that have made Ashbery such a significant figure in the American literary landscape.

About this title

About the Author:

John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927 and educated at Harvard and Columbia. He is Charles P. Stevenson Jr., Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College and lives in New York City and Hudson, New York.

From Library Journal:

From unlikely beginnings ("Song of the Windshield Wiper," "Alone in the Lumber Business," etc.) Ashbery's elusive, astonishingly inventive poems spring. In this first volume since Selected Poems ( LJ 1/86), his seamless style allows a rich assemblage of voices to move nimbly between high comedy and low, among fable, memory, and meditation. Youthful experience is contrasted with a life in late middle age" . . . afraid to retrace steps/ To the past that was only recently ours,/. . . O in all your life were you ever teased/ Like this, and it became your mind?"and while change remains a major theme, life rather than art becomes central. Robert Hudzik, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton Cty.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0374525889
• ISBN 13: 9780374525880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 95