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Selected Poems: John Ashbery by John Ashbery
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.95During 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Passions, leaves, loves, flutes, insects, paintings, apologies, and partings, all feature in this collection of poetry by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Ashbery.Book InformationISBN... -
Breezeway by John Ashbery 9781784101152
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The 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,... -
Planisphere by John Ashbery 9780061915222
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061915222Author John AshberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint < -
Some Trees by John Ashbery
Booksplease Price: £17.67A capsule of the imaginative life of the individual, Some Trees is the 52nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is "the last... -
Parallel Movement of the Hands: six unfinished longer works by John Ashbery by John Ashbery 9781800170933
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Parallel 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.72Mysterious, 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... -
Something Close to Music by John Ashbery
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.00An 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... -
Other Traditions John Ashbery 9780674302440
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.29"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the... -
Selected Poems by John Ashbery 9780140585537
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140585537Author John AshberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint < -
THE ICE STORM by John Ashbery 9798989378012
Booksplease Price: £13.11Apologies 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: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59This 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: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062387042Author John AshberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint < -
John Ashbery by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780791078877
Booksplease Price: £26.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791078877Author Harold BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint -
New York Poets: An Anthology John Ashbery 9781857547344
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.76For 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 French Translations: Prose by John Ashbery 9780374612054
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374612054Author John AshberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint < -
Autorretrato En Espejo Convexo by John Ashbery 9788475222479
Booksplease Price: £8.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery 9781857549065
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59"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... -
Can You Hear, Bird by John Ashbery 9781857542240
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60After 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... -
Commotion of the Birds: New Poems by John Ashbery 9780062565105
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062565105Author John AshberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint < -
Your Name Here: Poems by John Ashbery 9781857545203
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.24In "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... -
I Am The Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me by Anthony McCann 9781950268887
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64With tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity, the poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead. Following... -
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems by John Ashbery 9780140586688
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Awards and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Book... -
Collected Poems: 1991-2000 by John Ashbery 9781784105259
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.29After 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28John 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: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061173844Author John AshberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
John Ashbery and American Poetry by David Herd 9780719080593
Booksplease Price: £23.54starting point. David Herd sets out to provide readers with a new critical language through which they can appreciate the beauty and complexity of Ashbery's writing. Presenting the poet in all his... -
Art of the Ordinary: The Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry by Richard Deming 9781501720147
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.38Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the... -
All About You by Chris Nealon 9781950268955
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Written with keen perception and insatiable curiosity, Chris Nealon's fifth book of poetry, All About You, is both a study of personhood and a diary of release from it. "You almost let your ego go,"... -
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery 9780061367182
Booksplease Price: £17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061367182Author John AshberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint < -
Negotiations: Poems in their Contexts Neil Corcoran 9781836245056
Booksplease Price: £29.41This book, by the eminent poetry critic Neil Corcoran, examines the ways in which the work of significant modern Irish, British and American poets interacts with or 'negotiates' different contexts -... -
Reading Elizabeth Bishop: An Edinburgh Companion by Jonathan Ellis
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.32Provides a comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fiction.About the AuthorJonathan Ellis, Reader in American... -
All About You by Chris Nealon 9798891060029
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.43Written with keen perception and insatiable curiosity, Chris Nealon's fifth book of poetry, All About You, is both a study of personhood and a diary of release from it. "You almost let your ego go,"... -
Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry by John Ashbery 9781857543667
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37To 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... -
John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange: The Minor Eras by Oli Hazzard 9780198822011
Booksplease Price: £94.90In 1966, John Ashbery wrote: 'The English language is constantly trying to stave off invasion by the American language; it lives in a state of alert which is reflected to some degree in English... -
Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery 9780062968869
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062968869Author John AshberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint < -
A Study Guide for John Ashbery's Paradoxes and Oxymorons by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375386098
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375386098Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32I -
Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature by Stephen J. Ross 9780198798385
Booksplease Price: £114.88In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), the American poet John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much of modern art: 'How could he explain to them his prayer / that... -
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara 9780802134523
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.53Collected 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... -
The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life by Karin Roffman 9780374537876
Booksplease Price: £15.75The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery - the winner of nearly every major American literary award - reveals the unusual ways he drew on the...