Some Trees

John Ashbery author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Yale University Press

Published:14th Jan '20

Should be back in stock very soon

Some Trees cover

A capsule of the imaginative life of the individual, Some Trees is the 52nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets
 
Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is “the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible.” After the publication of Some Trees, selecting judge W. H. Auden famously confessed that he didn’t understand a word of it. Most reviews were negative. But in this first book of poems from one of the century’s most important poets, one finds the seeds of Ashbery’s oeuvre, including the influence of French surrealists—many of whom he translated—and abstract expressionism.

ISBN: 9780300246377

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96 pages