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Title: Your Name Here: Poems by John Ashbery ISBN: 0-374-52783-0 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 03 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Redeemed Area
Comment: Ashbery's writing with the crackle of someone just starting out. It's like now that he knows he's in the canon (thanks, Bloom), he can really go looby and make English swing. The autumn leaves fall a little lighter in these poems; reverie (always present) takes a back seat to inspired goofiness. I've admired other Ashbery books--this one I loved. It's made my own elite canon of bathroom reading and not a poem's let me down. I hope I grow old just like this.
Rating: 4
Summary: Peremptory splendours abound
Comment: Well, we've always been sleepily ardent in our admiration of John Ashbery, a boosterism which borders on a fanatical apathy: his perky atonality has a certain depressingly insistent gaiety about it. We value the kinky ecumenism between the patois and the mandarin, the somewhat dopey collision between the vernacular and the highfalutin. Not everyone can get away with that, it says here. We can't wait until the biography comes out, along with its subject, so we can gain some insight into his methods. Of course, we remember with fondness the clepsydra, the fragment called "Fragment," the raindrop of milk slipping down the spine of the obelisk, and those peonies tipped in soot from "o.blek" poems of the early 1990s. Similar marvels, or unmarvels, are thronged hereabouts, like panicles of umber: an austere seraglio of tawdriness and splendour, assembled by a poet's poet.
We have here lyrics of a rehearsed suddenness, of a customary unpredicability : language whose smooth bumps & well-paved potholes inspire both fearer and farer, both reader and rider, to explore more deeply the simplistic intricacies of Ashbery's frabjously deadpan patois. The images rustled into this semi-solipsistic corral collide in an amiable showdown, a triumphantly graceful slapstick, a dreadfully solemn opera bouffe, which we cannot readily forget. Herein we have the greeting and the greening of a life with all its happy calamities & soulshattering lucky breaks -- a lexical rhizopus that reveals the casual emergencies of existence, an ennui that is at least as jazzy as those halcyon ecstasies of yore, those drab celebrations of the past's disastrous victories.
Rating: 5
Summary: Negative Capability
Comment: Aw nerts this guy is too much for me. I feel like one of the girls with names like Linda, Ruth, and Pat from the 1940s who stand next to an airplane when this poet comes along from the next century. "Your Name Here", the very title, suggests his "negative capability" is acting up again, with results typically mind-blowing, keeping everyone guessing. I rank this almost on the level of the great "Can You Hear, Bird."
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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: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems by John Ashbery ISBN: 0140586687 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Chinese Whispers: Poems by John Ashbery ISBN: 0374122571 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Selected Poems by John Ashbery ISBN: 0140585532 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: December, 1986 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Girls on the Run : A Poem by John Ashbery ISBN: 0374526974 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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