Chinese Whispers

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480459014

<DIV><B>John Ashbery&rsquo;s restless, witty meditation on aging and the music of change: A must-read collection from America&rsquo;s greatest modern poet</B><BR /><BR />The child&rsquo;s game Chinese Whispers, known in America as Telephone, is an exercise in transforming the recognizable into something beautifully strange. John Ashbery&rsquo;s twenty-fourth collection of poems, <I>Chinese Whispers</I>, re-creates in every line the accidentally transformative logic of the language game for which the book is named. In sixty-three charged and often very funny poems, Ashbery confronts the relentlessness of age and time while demonstrating, in his unmistakable, self-reflexive style, the process by which a single thought unravels, multiplies, distends, travels, and finally arrives, changed and unfamiliar.<BR />&#160;<BR />First published in 2002, shortly after Ashbery&rsquo;s seventy-fifth birthday, <I>Chinese Whispers</I> is a collection in which fairy tales, mysteries, and magic dollhouses interleave effortlessly with the everyday of pancakes and popular culture. Ashbery&rsquo;s language is absolutely recognizable from modern life as it is experienced, but at the same time is as dreamlike and disquieting as intercepted transmissions from another world.&#160;<BR /></DIV>