Best Selling Books by John Ashbery

Uno de los libros más importantes de John Ashbery, ganador de los premios Pulitzer de poesía, National Book Critics Circle y National Book. «John Ashbery es hoy, sin duda, el poeta norteamericano por excelencia. [...] Poeta del torrente de lo mental, poeta total en muchos sentidos, John Ashbery es un poeta de lo cotidiano en el interior de las mentes». Luis Antonio de Villena, Babelia John Ashbery fue el poeta estadounidense más influyente de su tiempo. Considerado por el crítico Harold Bloom el último de los canónicos, su obra ha permeado de manera decisiva en nuevas generaciones de poetas -no solo en el ámbito anglosajón- y sigue siendo un referente ineludible a la hora de juzgar la poesía de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Una ola, por el que recibió los premios Lenore Marshall y Bollingen, es un libro sobre la muerte y la memoria en el que Ashbery destila toda su maestría en el manejo de la metáfora, el poema de largo aliento e incluso la prosa. De cada una de estas piezas, espléndidamente traducidas por Ignacio Infante, emana un hipnotismo intenso que, como una bella despedida, resuena en la memoria con el eco de una melodía persistente. Reseñas: «Pocos poetas poseen hoy día su misteriosa habilidad para socavar nuestras certidumbres, para articular tan plenamente las zonas más ambiguas de nuestra conciencia». Paul Auster «John Ashbery es un gran poeta. [...] Sabe y quiere ser todos los poetas a la vez, como Whitman quiso transportar en la canoa del pecho a todos los hombres». Antonio Lucas, El Mundo «Un genio enigmático de la poesía moderna cuya energía, audacia y dominio ilimitado del lenguaje elevaron el verso norteamericano a cotas brillantes y desconcertantes». The Guardian «Uno de los poetas norteamericanos más importantes del siglo XX». ABC «Desde la muerte de Wallace Stevens en 1955, estamos en la Era de Ashbery». Harold Bloom «Un poeta cuyos versos burlones, delicados y conmovedores lo convirtieron en una de las figuras más influyentes de la literatura estadounidense de finales del siglo XX y principios del XXI». The New York Times

Hailed by Harold Bloom as "America’s greatest living poet," John Ashbery has won every major American literary award for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A beloved and gifted artist, Ashbery takes his place beside Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane in the canon of great American poets. With Quick Question, a new collection of poems published in time for his 85th birthday, John Ashbery proves that his creative power has only grown stronger with age.

El primer número de Buenos Aires Poetry incluye una entrevista realizada por Juan Arabia a John ASHBERY (máximo exponente de la escuela poética neoyorquina), material poético inédito de Dan FANTE y un estudio crítico sobre Jack KEROUAC, el Rock and Roll y la Profecía Whitmaniana. Además, una entrevista al director de la Fundación Raymond Williams, Derek TATTON, que con la ayuda de la Sociedad Raymond Williams (Nottingham Trent University, University of Birmingham) analiza las convergencias y balances de los estudios culturales en la época actual. En materia de poesía incluye la traducción al español del poema "Hotel Lautréamont", del mismo ASHBERY.

El número especial de Arthur RIMBAUD es un en homenaje al poeta francés que fue incluido en octubre de 2014 en la documentación del Musée Arthur Rimbaud de la ciudad de Charleville (Francia) lugar donde nació y descansan los restos de Rimbaud), y en La Librería de Poesía de Edimburgo (Scottish Poetry Library). Participan del número Neil Leadbeater, John Ashbery, Robert Darnton, Antonio Lastra, y Juan Arabia, entre otros.

The second volume of Library of America''s definitive edition, including the modern classic Flow Chart in a newly corrected text. Published for his ninetieth birthday, Library of America presents the second volume of John Ashbery’s collected poems, spanning a crucial and prolific decade in the poet’s work. The volume opens with the indispensable Flow Chart (1991), in a complete text for the first time. The other collections gathered here—Hotel Lautréamont (1992), And the Stars Were Shining (1994), Can You Hear, Bird (1995), Wakefulness (1998), and Your Name Here (2000)—show Ashbery perfecting the playful, cerebral style that has made his poetry a genre unto itself, highly influential and often imitated. Long an art critic and one of the shrewdest observers of the American art scene, Ashbery engages with the renowned outsider artist Henry Darger in the fascinating book-length poem Girls on the Run (1999), inspired by the exuberant, unsettling fictional universe Darger created. The volume concludes with a selection of twenty-six previously uncollected poems. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

A bold, striking new collection of poems from one of America’s most influential and inventive poets. With more than twenty poetry collections to his name, John Ashbery is one of our most agile, philosophically complex, and visionary poets. In Breezeway, Ashbery’s powers of observation are at their most astute; his insight at its most penetrating. Demonstrating his extraordinary command of language and his ability to move fluidly and elegantly between wide-ranging thoughts and ideas—from the irreverent and slyly humorous to the tender, the sad, and the heartbreaking—Ashbery shows that he is a virtuoso fluent in diverse styles and tones of language, from the chatty and whimsical to the lyrical and urbane. Filled with allusions to literature and art, as well as to the absurdities and delights of the everyday world around us, Ashbery’s poems are haunting, surprising, hilarious, and knowing all at once, the work of a master craftsman with a keen understanding of the age in which he lives and writes, an age whose fears and fragmentation he conjures and critiques with humor, pathos, and a provocative wit. Vital and imaginative, Ashbery’s poems not only touch on the “big questions” and crises of life in the twenty-first century, but also delicately capture the small moments between and among people. Imaginative, linguistically dazzling, and artistically ambitious, Breezeway is John Ashbery’s sharpest and most arresting collection yet.