Commotion of the Birds
For more than sixty years, the poems of John Ashbery have served as signposts guiding us through the delights, woes, hypocrisies, and uncertainties of living in the modern world. With language harvested from everyday speech, fragments of pop culture, and objects and figures borrowed from art and literature, his work makes light out of darkness, playing with tone and style to show how even the seemingly frivolous stuff of existence can be employed to express the deepest levels of feeling. Commotion of the Birds, his twenty-seventh collection, once again showcases Ashbery's mastery of a staggering range of voices and his singular lyric agility:…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78410-309-5
- EAN: 9781784103095
- Produktnummer: 33414172
- Verlag: Carcanet
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 303 KB
Über den Autor
John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He has written many books of poetry, including 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, he recently received the Medalfor Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation (2011) and a National Humanities Medal, presented byPresident Obama at the White House (2012). Helives in New York.
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