And the Stars Were Shining: Poems

And the Stars Were Shining: Poems

Witty yet heartbreaking, conversational yet richly lyrical, John Ashberyâ€™s sixteenth poetry collection showcases a mastery uniquely his own

And the Stars Were Shining originally appeared in 1994, toward the midpoint of a startlingly creative period in Ashberyâ€™s long career, during which the great American poet published no fewer than nine books in ten years. The collection brings together more than fifty compact, jewellike, intensely felt poems, including the well-known â€œLike a Sentenceâ€ (â€œHow little we know, / and when we know it!â€) and the lyrical, deeply moving thirteen-part title poem recognized as one of the authorâ€™s greatest. This collection is Ashbery at his most accessible, graceful, and elegiac.Â
Country USA
Manufacturer Open Road Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-09-09
Format Kindle eBook

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