April Galleons - Hardcover

Ashbery, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670819581 ISBN 13: 9780670819584

Publisher: The Viking Press, 1987

Synopsis

Poems consider the imagination, weather, the seasons, memories of school, and the condition of the world

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: The Viking Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0670819581
• ISBN 13: 9780670819584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 97