[New-Poetry] Ashbery America

[David Graham]

Start saving your pennies, everyone.  Due out in October:  *John  
Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987*.  List price $40.

"With this volume, The Library of America inaugurates a collected  
edition of the works of America’s preeminent living poet. Beginning  
with Some Trees in 1956, John Ashbery has charted a profoundly  
original and individual course that has opened up pathways for  
subsequent generations of poets. At once hermetic and exuberantly  
curious, meditative and unnervingly funny, dreamlike and steeped in  
everyday realities, and alive to every nuance of American speech,  
these are poems that constantly discover new worlds within language.  
This first volume of the collected Ashbery includes the complete  
texts of his first twelve books, including such groundbreaking  
collections as Rivers and Mountains, Three Poems, Self-Portrait in a  
Convex Mirror (which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award,  
and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1975), and Houseboat  
Days. It also features an unprecedented gathering of more than sixty  
previously uncollected poems written over a period of four decades, a  
rare treasure trove for poetry lovers. This volume is a landmark  
portrait of a modern master. "  --Product description fr. Amazon



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