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John Ashbery

    28. červenec 1927 – 3. září 2017

    John Ashbery byl jedním z nejvýznamnějších amerických básníků. Jeho dílo se vyznačuje hravou inteligencí, komplexními strukturami a nejednoznačnými významy, které vybízí čtenáře k aktivnímu zapojení. Ashberyho poezie často zkoumá témata paměti, identity a povahy jazyka samotného. Jeho jedinečný styl, který kombinuje prvky modernismu a postmodernismu, zanechal nesmazatelnou stopu v americké literatuře.

    John Ashbery
    New York Poets: An Anthology
    Selected Poems
    Collected French Translations
    Kitaj: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels
    Selected Poems: John Ashbery
    Autoportrét ve vypouklém zrcadle
    • 2023
    • 2023

      Collected French Translations

      Prose

      • 428 stránek
      • 15 hodin čtení
      4,2(9)Ohodnotit

      Featuring masterful translations, this vibrant collection showcases the work of one of today's finest poets. The selections highlight the poet's skill in capturing the essence and nuances of the original texts, offering readers a rich and immersive experience. Each piece reflects a deep understanding of language and emotion, making this collection a vital addition for lovers of poetry and translation alike.

      Collected French Translations
    • 2022

      This book presents poetry by Ashbery (1927-2017) from his later collections alongside contemporaneous art writing. It also includes "playlists" featuring music from Ashbery's own collection, reflecting his love for music while writing. His poetry is often described as ekphrastic; however, instead of merely being inspired by art or music, Ashbery engages with the experience of seeing and the artistic strategies involved, offering new ways to contemplate both. Insights from his art writing provide keys to interpreting his poetry. The music he favored often includes contemporary classical works characterized by complex textures and disjunct phrases, mirroring the qualities found in his poetry. Ashbery's work plays with diverse poetic textures and sudden shifts, allowing readers to construct multiple narratives and meanings. He rarely presents linear stories or focuses solely on evocative descriptions. This exploration invites readers to see how poetry, art, and music illuminate and inform each other in Ashbery's work. In the introduction by Mónica de la Torre, she delves into the connection between these three muses and the ekphrastic experience of engaging with Ashbery's poetry.

      Something Close to Music
    • 2021
    • 2020

      Some Trees

      • 96 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení
      4,2(13)Ohodnotit

      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.

      Some Trees
    • 2019

      John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing explorations of places where no one has ever been.

      Autoritratto entro uno specchio convesso. Testo inglese a fronte
    • 2004

      Gathers the work of four of the 'first generation' of New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. This anthology provides introductions to the poets' work, and charts an exchange between experiment and the emergence of language poetry.

      New York Poets: An Anthology
    • 2002
    • 1998

      Selected Poems: John Ashbery

      • 348 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      4,3(10)Ohodnotit

      During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the eminence grise of postmodernism, championed by W.H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. Drawn from the work he published up to 1984, this collection makes a wide range of this poet's writing available.

      Selected Poems: John Ashbery
    • 1995