{"product_id":"planisphere-new-poems-isbn-9780061915215","title":"Planisphere: New Poems","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt\"\u003e“Ashbery is a national treasure.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt\"\u003eThe poetry of John Ashbery has been awarded virtually every conceivable literary prize including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the \u003c?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eGriffin\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:city\u003e, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. \u003cem\u003ePlanisphere \u003c\/em\u003eis a new collection by one of \u003cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eAmerica\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:country-region\u003e’s most innovative and influential poets—an exceptional artist whose work stands alongside the finest of \u003cspan style=\"COLOR: black\"\u003eWhitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane. For more than half a century Ashbery has been producing timeless works such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChinese Whispers, Hotel Lautréamont, A Wave, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWhere Shall I Wander\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003ePlanisphere \u003c\/em\u003eis proof that the master only improves with age.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eBreathlike\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as the day could use another hour,\u003cbr\u003eI need another idea. Not a concept\u003cbr\u003eor a slogan. Something more like a rut\u003cbr\u003emade thousands of years ago by one of the first\u003cbr\u003ewheels as it rolled along. It never came back\u003cbr\u003eto see what it had done, and the rut\u003cbr\u003ejust stayed there, not thinking of itself\u003cbr\u003eor calling attention to itself in any way.\u003cbr\u003eSun baked it. Water stood, or rather sat\u003cbr\u003ein it. Wind covered it with dust, then blew it\u003cbr\u003eaway. Always it was available to itself\u003cbr\u003ewhen it wished to be, which wasn't often.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there was a cup and ball theory\u003cbr\u003eI told you about. A lot of people had left the coast.\u003cbr\u003eSquirt conditions obtained. I forgot I overwhelmed you\u003cbr\u003eonce upon a time, between everybody's sound sleep\u003cbr\u003eand waking afterward, trying to piece together\u003cbr\u003ewhat had happened. The rut glimmered\u003cbr\u003ethrough centuries of snow and after.\u003cbr\u003eI suppose it was trying to make some point\u003cbr\u003ebut we never found out about that,\u003cbr\u003ehaving come to know each other years later\u003cbr\u003ewhen our interest in zoning had revived again.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Deeply pleasurable...Ashbery still has his ear to the ground, he’s still listening, and the results are fun, funny, often wise, sometimes brilliant...” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookForum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e” [Ashbery’s] productivity has done nothing to diminish his legendary inscrutability, not sap his notorious zest for playing havoc with nearly every convention and fixed idea about poetry under the sun.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ashbery helms a keen awareness of himself throughout...If he’s repetitive, it’s in the way that a beach is repetitive with sand, or the night sky is repetitive with stars.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His poetry appeals not because it offers wisdom in a packaged form, but because the elusiveness and mysterious promise of his lines remind us that we always have a future and a condition of meaningfulness to start out toward.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Ashbery] is . . . a genius.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ashbery continues to inhabit a worldly country all his own.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The man who should be our poet laureate.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Among the poets of the New York School, Ashbery has been the most influential in opening up new possibilities for the American lyric. He has done this by enlivening the page with diction of a startling heterogeneity; by being more broadly allusive than any other modern poet, including Eliot; by being boyish and amusing while maintaining emotional depth; by finding a gorgeousness of imagery rare since Stevens; and by taking headstrong risks.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ashbery just talks, calmly and evenly, sifting through the verbal detritus of civilization and making fascinating sculptures out of what he finds.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of those rare artists—one whose craft only improves with age.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Oregonian (Portland)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887944659173,"sku":"NP9780061915215","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061915215.jpg?v=1730227792","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/planisphere-new-poems-isbn-9780061915215","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}