Binding: Paperback
Description: A bold striking new collection of poems from one of America's most influential and inventive poets. With more than twenty poetry collections to his name John Ashbery is one of our most agile philosophically complex and visionary poets. In Breezeway Ashbery's powers of observation are at their most astute; his insight at its most penetrating. Demonstrating his extraordinary command of language and his ability to move fluidly and elegantly between wide - ranging thoughts and ideas from the irreverent and slyly humorous to the tender the sad and the heartbreaking Ashbery shows that he is a virtuoso fluent in diverse styles and tones of language from the chatty and whimsical to the lyrical and urbane. Filled with allusions to literature and art as well as to the absurdities and delights of the everyday world around us Ashbery's poems are haunting surprising hilarious and knowing all at once the work of a master craftsman with a keen understanding of the age in which he lives and writes an age whose fears and fragmentation he conjures and critiques with humor pathos and a provocative wit. Vital and imaginative Ashbery's poems not only touch on the big questions and crises of life in the twenty - first century but also delicately capture the small moments between and among people. Imaginative linguistically dazzling and artistically ambitious Breezeway is John Ashbery's sharpest and most arresting collection yet.
Title: Breezeway New Poems
Author(s): Ashbery John
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062387042
Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/5/2016