First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, A Wave is widely considered one of Ashbery's finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here--particularly the long title-poem--find the poet applying his uniquely lyric, meditative, and often hilarious sensibility to the mysterious and incessant curves and crests of love, art, thought, experience, and selfhood.
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First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, A Wave is widely considered one of Ashbery's finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here--particularly the long title-poem--find the poet applying his uniquely lyric, meditative, and often hilarious sensibility to the mysterious and incessant curves and crests of love, art, thought, experience, and selfhood.
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Add this copy of A Wave: Poems By John Ashbery to cart. $12.00, good condition, Sold by Crabtree's Collection rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sebago, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Noonday Press/Farrar Straus.
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G PB. Ashbery takes life itself as his subject, the interaction of experience, memory and expression ias cast against the shadow. Of mortality. The poems are lovingly addressed to the reader as Walt Whitman offered to stop somewhere waiting for us.
Add this copy of A Wave: Poems to cart. $32.55, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Add this copy of A Wave: Poems to cart. $83.84, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Carcanet Press Ltd.
