Selected Prose

by John Ashbery

Book Overview

"By the end of the book, Ashbery has laid out not only a course in contemporary poetics but a portrait of the artist teaching himself to become a thoroughly Modernist poet---in small bites, easy to savor, easy to digest."
---Los Angeles Times Book Review

"This is a marvelous book by one of our greatest poets. Reading John Ashbery's Selected Prose is like listening to a brilliant talker who not only keeps us entertained and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472031392
• ISBN13: 9780472031399
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1"