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The songs we know best : John Ashbery's early life (Record no. 33404)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780374537876
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 811.54
Item number ROF
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Roffman, Karin
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Title The songs we know best : John Ashbery's early life
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2017
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 316 p. ;
Other physical details ill.,
Dimensions 23 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 1239.00
Price type code ₹
Unit of pricing 01
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (page 291-297) and index.
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Summary, etc The first biography of an American master. The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery -- the winner of nearly every major American literary award -- reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on unpublished correspondence, juvenilia, and childhood diaries as well as more than one hundred hours of conversation with the poet, Karin Roffman offers an insightful portrayal of Ashbery during the twenty-eight years that led up to his stunning debut, Some Trees, chosen by W. H. Auden for the 1955 Yale Younger Poets Prize. Roffman shows how Ashbery's poetry arose from his early lessons both on the family farm and in 1950s New York City -- a bohemian existence that teemed with artistic fervor and radical innovations inspired by Dada and surrealism as well as lifelong friendships with painters and writers such as Frank O'Hara, Jane Freilicher, Nell Blaine, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Willem de Kooning. Ashbery has a reputation for being enigmatic and playfully elusive, but Roffman's biography reveals his deft mining of his early life for the flint and tinder from which his provocative later poems grew, producing a body of work that he calls "the experience of experience," an intertwining of life and art in extraordinarily intimate ways"-- "A biography focusing on the poet John Ashbery's early life"-- "The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery; the winner of nearly every major American literary award; reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on unpublished correspondence, juvenilia, and childhood diaries as well as more than one hundred hours of conversation with the poet, Karin Roffman offers an insightful portrayal of Ashbery during the twenty-eight years that led up to his stunning debut, Some Trees, chosen by W. H. Auden for the 1955 Yale Younger Poets Prize. Roffman shows how Ashbery's poetry arose from his early lessons both on the family farm and in 1950s New York City - a bohemian existence that teemed with artistic fervor and radical innovations inspired by Dada and surrealism as well as lifelong friendships with painters and writers such as Frank O'Hara, Jane Freilicher, Nell Blaine, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Willem de Kooning
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     DAU DAU 05/11/2024 Amazon 1239.00   811.54 ROF 035086 07/11/2024 Books