In this collection, first published in 1987, John Ashbery--"one of his generation's most gifted and eloquent poets" (Michuko Kakutani, The New York Times)--offers some of his most intimate and direct poems. With breathtaking freshness, he writes of mutability, of the passage of time, and of growth, decay, and death as they are reflected in both ourselves and the changing of the seasons. By turns playful, melancholy, and mysterious, the poems in April Galleons reaffirm the extraordinary powers that have made Ashbery such a significant figure in the American literary landscape.
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From unlikely beginnings ("Song of the Windshield Wiper," "Alone in the Lumber Business," etc.) Ashbery's elusive, astonishingly inventive poems spring. In this first volume since Selected Poems ( LJ 1/86), his seamless style allows a rich assemblage of voices to move nimbly between high comedy and low, among fable, memory, and meditation. Youthful experience is contrasted with a life in late middle age" . . . afraid to retrace steps/ To the past that was only recently ours,/. . . O in all your life were you ever teased/ Like this, and it became your mind?"and while change remains a major theme, life rather than art becomes central. Robert Hudzik, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton Cty.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Ashbery has a touch with language almost unmatched in contemporary poetry."--The Houston Post
"How can you not like a gufted poet who wants you to have a good time sliding around on his deliberately slippery decks."--Los Angeles Times
"A wonderful volume from a man who writes without pretension."--Details
"How can you not like a gufted poet who wants you to have a good time sliding around on his deliberately slippery decks."--Los Angeles Times
"A wonderful volume from a man who writes without pretension."--Details
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