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Yale University Press

Some Trees

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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.

Book Details

Publisher:
Yale University Press
ISBN:
9780300246377
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
John Ashbery
Published Date:
2019-10-22
Language:
English

About John Ashbery

Among the central figures of the New York School, John Ashbery (1927–2017) was born in Rochester, New York. His collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Viking, 1975), prompted by the Parmigianino painting, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in a single year, the only book to take all three. He won the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize for Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems. The Poetry Society of America awarded him the Robert Frost Medal in 1995. He published more than twenty volumes of poetry across six decades and worked for years as an art critic in Paris and New York.

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