And the stars were shining
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1994 - Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
24,750 words, Guess
Page Count
99 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1405989M
- ISBN-100374105006
- OCLC Control Number28257394
- OCLC Control Numberandstarswereshin0000ashb
- Library of Congress Control Number93014255
and 2 more
- LibraryThing12819
- Goodreads1298743
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3501.S475 A83 1994
Description
John Ashbery's sixteenth collection of poems, like all the others, strikes out into new territory and engages the reader in new and unexpected ways. With the exception of the title poem, which concludes the volume - a thirteen-part poem of exceptional grace and brilliance - the fifty-eight poems in this collection are mostly short; in their relative brevity they display all the valiant wit and rich lyric intensity which readers know from Ashbery's expansive longer work. The critic Harold Bloom has observed: "And the Stars Were Shining is one of John Ashbery's strongest collections, the title poem his most beautiful long poem yet. He helps to redeem a bad time when many among us have joined in a guilty flight away from the aesthetic.
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