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 of 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.
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.
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