John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1991-2000: Library of America #297

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To celebrate John Ashbery's ninetieth birthday, the Library of America presents the second volume of his collected poems, spanning a crucial and prolific decade in the poet's life and work. Having received wide acclaim and numerous awards over the first half of his career, in the 1990s Ashbery continued to strike out in new directions, writing in a style that is at once playful and cerebral, relaxed and precise, dreamlike in its imagery and associations yet exquisitely attuned to the everyday rhythms of American speech.

America's preeminent living poet, John Ashbery (b. 1927) has long associated with the New York School that came to the fore in the 1950s. He has influenced generations of writers and his poems, dreamlike and steeped in everyday realities, alive to every nuance of American speech, have discovered new worlds within language. As the poet David Shapiro has written, they "may seem so open that they become, like Hamlet, that rare inexhaustible thing, the irreducible fact of great art." Author Residence- Hudson, NY Author Hometown- New York City Mark Ford, editor, is the author of three acclaimed collections of poetry, Landlocked, Soft Sift, and Six Children; his Selected Poems was published in 2014. His book-length interview, John Ashbery in Conversation with Mark Ford, was published in 2003. He contributes regularly to the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and the New York Review of Books. He teaches at University College London. Illustrator Residence- London