A Wave

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480459083

<DIV><B>One of Ashbery&rsquo;s most acclaimed and beloved collections since <I>Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror</I>, filled with his signature wit and generous intelligence</B><BR /><BR />The poems in John Ashbery&rsquo;s award-winning 1984 collection <I>A Wave</I> address the impermanence of language, the nature of mortality, and the fluidity of consciousness&mdash;matters of life and death that in other hands might run the risk of sentimentality. For John Ashbery, however, these considerations provide an opportunity to display his prodigious poetic gifts: the unerring ear for our evolving modern language and its ever-expanding universe of meanings, the fierce eye trained on glimmers underwater, and the wry humor that runs through observations both surprising and familiar. As the poem &ldquo;The Path to the White Moon&rdquo; has it, &ldquo;We know what is coming, that we are moving / Dangerously and gracefully / Toward the resolution of time / Blurred but alive with many separate meanings / Inside this conversation.&rdquo; The long title poem of <I>A Wave</I>, which closes the book, is considered one of Ashbery&rsquo;s most distinguished works, praised by critic Helen Vendler for its &ldquo;genius for a free and accurate American rendition of very elusive inner feelings, and especially for transitive states between feelings.&rdquo;<BR />&#160;<BR />Winner of both the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Bollingen Prize, this book is one to be read, reread, and remembered.<BR /></DIV>