Mysterious, esoteric, baffling - John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous and charming, and responsive to his shifting social and political contexts. This biography charts his emergence from a minor avant-garde figure to the most important poet of his generation.
In this entertaining account, Jess Cotton provides a legible and accessible map of Ashbery's work that draws connections between the poetry, the New York art and literary world and the political climate of the middle decades of the twentieth century. It makes the case for a more approachable, enjoyable and engaged Ashbery and will appeal to both students and the general reader, as well as anyone interested in American poetry, queer lives and twentieth-century history.
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John Ashbery is one of the most original and inventive poets of the post-war era. Jess Cotton deftly interweaves the evolution of his utterly distinctive poetic idiom into a wide-ranging and illuminating account of his life and times. Beautifully illustrated with numerous photographs never previously published, this volume offers a concise and eloquent introduction to a poet whose commitment to experimentation and ear for everyday speech gloriously expanded the possibilities of American poetry. * Mark Ford, Professor of English, UCL, and editor of John Ashbery: Collected Poems *
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978-1-78914-392-8 (9781789143928)
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Jess Cotton is an Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She writes on twentieth-century literature, with a particular interest in poetry after 1945, psychoanalysis, feminism and the practices of reading.
