Wakefulness

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480459120

<DIV><B>A collection of poems that recall, in their powerful transformations of language, the moment of clarity that arrives upon waking from a dream</B><BR /><BR />One of John Ashbery&rsquo;s most critically acclaimed collections since his iconic works of the mid-1970s, <I>Wakefulness</I> was praised in 1999 for its beauty and alertness. In these pages, the great poet is at once luring the reader into a vivid dream and waking us up with a jolt of recognition. In poems such as &ldquo;The Village of Sleep,&rdquo; &ldquo;Shadows in the Street,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Wakefulness,&rdquo; dreams, sleeplessness, and other transformational and liminal states are revealed to be part of a ceaseless continuity of accelerating changes. Even the most seemingly familiar phrases (&ldquo;stop me if you&rsquo;ve heard this one&rdquo;) are ever in the process of changing their meanings, especially in Ashbery&rsquo;s hands. And distinctive new realities are created constantly by the power of words, in strange and beautiful combinations. With every word and every line, Ashbery questions the real and summons a new reality.<BR /></DIV>