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Item Details
Title:
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A WORLDLY COUNTRY
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By: |
John Ashbery |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
1857549198 |
ISBN 13: |
9781857549195 |
Publisher: |
CARCANET PRESS LTD |
Pub. date: |
22 February, 2007 |
Pages: |
76 |
Description: |
A poetry collection by one of America's greatest poets, John Ashbery. It speaks from the haunted, ambiguous cities of the twenty-first century. |
Synopsis: |
John Ashbery's new collection speaks from the haunted, ambiguous cities of the twenty-first century. These are the landscapes of the worldly country we have created, both ominous and absurd. Perspectives dissolve into dazzle. The clock is ticking: we are on the wrong set and the cameras are rolling. Ashbery's supple, vigorous idiom conjures an unpredictable world, astonished by moments of piercing directness: the pause to share a winter pear, the sudden apprehension that the places we left fallow 'will be cultivated by another'. "A Worldly Country" tells us where we are, now exhilarating, now vertiginous; full of heartbreak and (as always with Ashbery) full of every kind of mirth, from the most sombre to the most enchanted. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Carcanet Press Ltd |
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Returnable |
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