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John Ashbery in Conversation With Mark Ford
BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION softcover 2003, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201512296 John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia University, and went to France as a Fulbright Scholar in 1955, living there for much of the next decade. His many collections include Notes from the Selected Later Poems (2007), which was awarded the International Griffin Poetry Prize. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) won the three major American prizes--the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award--and an early book, Some Trees (1956), was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. The Library of America published the first volume of his collected poems in 2008. We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)
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130 pages, Paperback
First published April 30, 2003
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October 12, 2013
"I was born at 8:20 am, and there was a thunderstorm at the time, which may be significant."
"When I got there I really hated the place. It was very beautiful in a way but very depressing for some reason."
"They served fruit juice, which was rare in those days -- The name Pam Pam apparently comes from pamplemousee."
"I think it finally did: having to be chained to a typewriter and turn out an article twice a week caused me, at one point, to wonder, 'Why can't I write poetry this way to meet my own deadlines instead of somebody else's?'
"I've always been anti anti-art."
"...completely puncturing the wit of my mot, intentionally no doubt."
"But it did become a drag after a while because I was really only writing poetry on weekends. I was a weekend poet."
"I started writing the first one, and then decided it would be a nice idea to have three of them. I thought of them as three oblong boxes to be filled with anything."
"I could never figure out how you are supposed to know when you have a clear and distinct idea of something, and I still can't"
"Obviously some other part of my mind -- the part that makes these connections -- is doing this work for me."
"When I got there I really hated the place. It was very beautiful in a way but very depressing for some reason."
"They served fruit juice, which was rare in those days -- The name Pam Pam apparently comes from pamplemousee."
"I think it finally did: having to be chained to a typewriter and turn out an article twice a week caused me, at one point, to wonder, 'Why can't I write poetry this way to meet my own deadlines instead of somebody else's?'
"I've always been anti anti-art."
"...completely puncturing the wit of my mot, intentionally no doubt."
"But it did become a drag after a while because I was really only writing poetry on weekends. I was a weekend poet."
"I started writing the first one, and then decided it would be a nice idea to have three of them. I thought of them as three oblong boxes to be filled with anything."
"I could never figure out how you are supposed to know when you have a clear and distinct idea of something, and I still can't"
"Obviously some other part of my mind -- the part that makes these connections -- is doing this work for me."
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