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Title: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems by John Ashbery ISBN: 0-14-058668-7 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Sashimi of Post-Modernity
Comment: This collection of poems, especially the title poem, is jarring and bewildering in its swiftness and complexity, and in the crossed-paths of struggle, you will encounter spectacular images and conclusions. The images like "now from the unbuttoned corner moving out" and "recurring wave of arrival" are vividly childlike and nostalgic but also remind me of nothing I have encountered before. Ashberry's images sometimes bang against each other like the organized chaos of bumper cars. If you find yourself lost, keep reading and re-reading, no one needs to point out subtlety. Stick around, the confusion and overlapping delay the release at the end of his movements, which rival T.S. Eliot, in their polite, mythic send-offs.
Rating: 5
Summary: Explosive, subtle; redefines American poetry.
Comment: John Ashbery with "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" redefines American poetry by shattering syntax and "meaning" into a million facets. Even cliches and conversational speech take on the tone of epic poetry in Ashbery's gaze. His indirect mannerism leaves the reader haunted by images that are unique in American writing. Though drawing heavily from modern French poetic technique, Ashbery lives up to Pound's dictum, "...make it new" and Rimbaud's decree that "...one must be absolutely modern." Above all, his portraits of stream-of-consciousness always surprise with their cinematic, sleight-of-hand, air of freshness. Along with Kenneth Koch, and Frank O'Hara, Ashbery remains the ringleader of the New York School of poetry.
Rating: 4
Summary: Deluxe Sushi of Post-Modernity
Comment: This collection of poems, especially the title poem, is jarring and bewildering in its swiftness and complexity, and in the crossed-paths of struggle, you will encounter spectacular images and conclusions. The images like "now from the unbuttoned corner moving out" and "recurring wave of arrival" are vividly childlike and nostalgic but also remind me of nothing I have encountered before. Ashberry's images sometimes bang against each other like the organized chaos of bumper cars. If you find yourself lost, keep reading and re-reading, no one needs to point out subtlety. Stick around, the confusion and overlapping delay the release at the end of his movements, which rival T.S. Eliot, in their polite, mythic send-offs.
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Title: The Mooring Of Starting Out by John Ashbery ISBN: 0880015470 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Wakefulness : Poems by John Ashbery ISBN: 0374525935 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 30 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Houseboat Days : Poems by John Ashbery ISBN: 0374525900 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 30 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Your Name Here: Poems by John Ashbery ISBN: 0374527830 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 03 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Life Studies & For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell ISBN: 0374506280 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1967 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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