After his spectacular early career, in which he became one of the
best-loved and most controversial poets of his time, and his
radical and productive middle years, John Ashbery continued
effortlessly finding new directions in the 1990s and into the
twenty-first century, writing playfully, inventively. His language
is exquisitely attuned to mundane reality, transforming it. Here in
a single, substantial, authoritative, and helpfully annotated
volume are seven complete books from this crucial period, starting
with Flow Chart (1991), a tour de force that shows Ashbery's
mastery of `the entire orchestral potential of the English
language,' as Helen Vendler put it. It complements Ashbery's
earlier Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, offering a vision of the
collective `dream of everyday life that was our / beginning, and
where we still live, out in the open, under clouds stacked up in a
holding pattern / like pictures in a nineteenth-century museum.'
The poems range across Ashbery's varied interests and obsessions -
opera, film noir, French poetry, the visual arts. Everywhere is his
boundless inventiveness, his pitch-perfect ear for American speech,
his exuberant erudition. The book ends with twenty-six uncollected
poems, among them `Hoboken', a collage that pillages Roget's
Thesaurus, and much else.
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