Ashbery, John: John Ashbery

Widely considered the most important poet in America today, John Ashbery creates collage both in his poetry and as visual art. This beautiful volume features Ashbery s collage work in both media.Ashbery is ever alert to the natural ironies that arise from juxtaposition, highlighting conflicting visions of the world as depicted in newspapers, magazines, classical paintings, and other sources. This book, which also features an intimate interview between Ashbery and the poet and art critic John Yau, is an enlightening complement to Ashbery's poetry.
—Publishers Weekly


"Ashberry's images demonstrate the same sense of gleeful mischeif thats everywhere in his poetry, mixing fine art with advertising and comic strips and picture postcards, all of it married with the artists sure eye for colour and moood and perspective"
—New York Times Book Review

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