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John Ashbery

    28. Juli 1927 – 3. September 2017

    John Ashbery zählte zu den bedeutendsten amerikanischen Dichtern. Sein Werk zeichnet sich durch spielerische Intelligenz, komplexe Strukturen und mehrdeutige Bedeutungen aus, die den Leser zur aktiven Auseinandersetzung einladen. Ashberys Lyrik erforscht häufig Themen wie Erinnerung, Identität und die Natur der Sprache selbst. Sein einzigartiger Stil, der Elemente der Moderne und Postmoderne verbindet, hinterließ unauslöschliche Spuren in der amerikanischen Literatur.

    John Ashbery
    Selected Poems
    Collected French Translations
    Kitaj: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels
    Selected Poems: John Ashbery
    Selbstporträt im konvexen Spiegel. Gedichte 1956-1977
    Mädchen auf der Flucht. Ausgewählte Gedichte - Zweisprachige Ausgabe
    • 2023
    • 2023

      Collected French Translations

      Prose

      • 428 Seiten
      • 15 Lesestunden
      4,2(9)Abgeben

      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 places poetry by Ashbery (1927-2017), gathered from his later collections, in conversation with a selection of contemporaneous art writing. In addition, as Ashbery loved music and listened to it while writing, the "playlists" here offer representative samplings of music from these same years, culled from Ashbery's own library of recordings. Ashbery's poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic, though, rather than writing a poem "based on'' or "inspired" by the content of an artwork or piece of music, he engages with how the experience of seeing it and the artistic strategies employed offer ways of thinking about it and through it. Many of the observations from Ashbery's art writing also offer keys to how we might read his poetry. Many of the recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical works that emphasize complex textures, disparate sounds, and disjunct phrases--qualities which are mimicked in his poetry. Ashbery's poetry similarly plays with a diversity of poetic textures and sudden turns such that a reader might construct multiple narratives or pathways of meaning. He rarely offers linear stories or focuses on evocative descriptions of a scene or object. In exploring this ekphrastic book project, the reader is invited to discover how, for Ashbery, these three forms might illuminate and inform one another. In Mónica de la Torre's introduction, she explores the connection between the three muses of music, art, and poetry, and the ekphrastic experience of reading Ashbery-- Provided by publisher

      Something Close to Music
    • 2021
    • 2020

      Some Trees

      • 96 Seiten
      • 4 Lesestunden
      4,2(13)Abgeben

      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 Seiten
      • 13 Lesestunden
      4,3(10)Abgeben

      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
    • 1992

      Die Kunst des Hungers

      Essays und Interviews

      • 269 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden
      3,5(4)Abgeben

      Gibt es einen inneren Zwang zur Literatur? Unterscheiden sich die großen Bücher von allen übrigen dadurch, dass sie geschrieben werden mussten? In seinen Essays über Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan, Knut Hamsun und andere große Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts ergründete Paul Auster die existentiellen Bedingungen des Schreibens. In seinen Studien wird deutlich, warum er als der europäischste unter den wichtigen amerikanischen Schriftstellern gilt. In vier ausführlichen Interviews gibt er zudem Auskunft über sein eigenes Werk und erzählt von der Notwendigkeit, die Grenze zwischen Schreiben und Leben aufzuheben.

      Die Kunst des Hungers