Description
About the Author
John Ashbery is recognized as one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century. He has won numerous poetry awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, among others, and a MacArthur Genius Grant. Mark Polizzotti is a writer, translator, and publisher. John Yau is a poet, art critic, and curator. He has published more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
Reviews
Ashbery is ever alert to the natural ironies that arise from juxtaposition, highlighting conflicting visions of the world as depicted in newspapers, magazines, classical paintings, and other sources. This book, which also features an intimate interview between Ashbery and the poet and art critic John Yau, is an enlightening complement to Ashbery's poetry.
-Publishers Weekly
"Ashberry's images demonstrate the same sense of gleeful mischeif thats everywhere in his poetry, mixing fine art with advertising and comic strips and picture postcards, all of it married with the artists sure eye for colour and moood and perspective"
-New York Times Book Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780847860562
Author John Ashbery
Format Hardback
Page Count 128
Imprint Skira Rizzoli
Publisher Rizzoli International Publications