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Selected Poems: John Ashbery by John Ashbery
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.33During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W.H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. His startling work alternately (and... -
Wakefulness by John Ashbery
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Passions, leaves, loves, flutes, insects, paintings, apologies, and partings, all feature in this collection of poetry by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Ashbery.Book InformationISBN... -
A Wave by John Ashbery 9780856355479
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, A Wave is widely considered one of Ashbery's finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here--particularly the long title-poem--find... -
Breezeway by John Ashbery 9781784101152
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20The poems in Breezeway move lightly between the everyday world, with its pleasures and absurdities, and the worlds of literature and art, with theirs. John Ashbery's poems are haunting, surprising,... -
Parallel Movement of the Hands: six unfinished longer works by John Ashbery by John Ashbery 9781800170933
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.35Parallel Movement of the Hands collects five long, serial poems (and prose poems) which John Ashbery left unfinished and will become part of his archive at Harvard University's Houghton Library. ... -
John Ashbery by Jess Cotton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Mysterious, esoteric, baffling - John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous and charming, and responsive to his shifting social and... -
Planisphere by John Ashbery 9780061915222
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Something Close to Music by John Ashbery
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $10.72An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery-a prolific poet and art critic-pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library. This book places poetry... -
The Tennis Court Oath by John Ashbery
Booksplease Price: $16.33John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words... -
THE ICE STORM by John Ashbery 9798989378012
Booksplease Price: $17.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989378012Author John AshberyFormat PaperbackImprint -
And the Stars Were Shining John Ashbery 9781857540666
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17This 16th collection by the author contains 59 comic and lyrical poems, including the 13-part title-poem. John Ashbery was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the... -
Breezeway: New Poems by John Ashbery 9780062387042
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery 9781857549065
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous... -
New York Poets: An Anthology John Ashbery 9781857547344
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $15.76For the first time, "The New York Poets" gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. By the early 1950s all... -
Collected Poems: 1991-2000 by John Ashbery 9781784105259
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.49After his spectacular early career, in which he became one of the best-loved and most controversial poets of his time, and his radical and productive middle years, John Ashbery continued effortlessly... -
Where Shall I Wander by John Ashbery 9781857547948
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10John Ashbery's new collection of fifty-one poems ends with the substantial piece that gives the book its title. Composed in stanzaic prose, it is a fine specimen of his distinctive courtship mode,... -
A Worldly Country: New Poems by John Ashbery 9780061173844
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $13.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Your Name Here: Poems by John Ashbery 9781857545203
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.36In "Your Name Here", a title suggested by bullfight posters hawked to tourists who then fill in their name as "terero", John Ashbery continues to examine preoccupations of age, loss, childhood... -
Autorretrato En Espejo Convexo by John Ashbery 9788475222479
Booksplease Price: $16.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788475222479Author John AshberyFormat PaperbackImprint -
Can You Hear, Bird by John Ashbery 9781857542240
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54After John Ashberry's "Flow Chart" (1991), "Hotel Lautreamont" (1992) and "And the Stars were Shining" (1994), this work provides an A-Y of poems, moments in which voices, images and tones come in... -
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara 9780802134523
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.87Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise... -
Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry by John Ashbery 9781857543667
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.62To mark John Ashbery's 70th birthday, Carcanet publish his first five books of poems in a single volume: "The Tennis Court Oath" (1962); "Same Trees" (1956); "Rivers and Mountains" (1966); "The... -
A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler Nathan Kernan 9780374281175
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $34.01Nathan Kernan's A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the definitive biography of the great American poet who, along with Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch,... -
Seven American Poets in Conversation: John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, Charles Simic, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Wilbur by Peter Dale 9781903291160
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903291160Author Anthony HechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint -
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf'... -
A Season: Poems Michael Joseph Walsh 9780820375526
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $19.47A Season is a visionary meditation born out of a spiritual crisis. As the poems attempt to remake a life within the ghostly limbo into which they've fallen-between self and world, sound and echo, the... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.72In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.70A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
The Orchid Boat by Lee Harwood 9781907587535
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.57The Orchid Boat is a weave of stories: some personal, some historical, some real, some imaginary. Often these stories may co-exist in a poem just as they do in one's everyday mind, as a collage... -
The Art Of Attention: A Poet's Eye by Donald Revell 9781555974749
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.25Revell argues passionately for the transformation that imaginative experience elicits through poetry. The art of poetry is not about the acquisition of wiles or the deployment of strategies, it's... -
The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry by John Yau 9780472069521
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23The quarterly review ""MELUS"" said of John Yau, ""[his] poetic and critical writings...present an intriguing site of investigation into questions of racial authenticity,"" while ""Publishers... -
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Gary Snyder, a crucial... -
The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage by Marjorie Perloff 9780810117648
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07This study, first published in 1981, argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist... -
Selected Poetry of John Clare by John Clare
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08This is the first selection of the great Romantic 'peasant poet' John Clare to make available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of... -
The Country without a Post Office: Poems by Agha Shahid Ali 9780393317619
RRP: $18.09Booksplease Price: $16.32"Translucent elegies 'for the city that is leaving forever' (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America's finest younger poets."-John AshberyAbout the AuthorAgha Shahid Ali... -
Tendril by Bin Ramke 9781890650261
Booksplease Price: $17.42By drawing the small instances of living to the forefront of meaning, this collection of elegant and lyrical poems reveals the value of simple events in our lives. Allowing the reader to follow the... -
PN Review 275 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174184
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20The January-February 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud 9780393341829
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.86The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of the... -
PN Review 280 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174238
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20The November-December 2024 issue.Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
PN Review 279 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174221
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20The September-October 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and...