Three Poems

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480459175

<DIV><B>A provocative, challenging masterpiece by John Ashbery that set a new standard for the modern prose poem</B><BR /><BR />&ldquo;The pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me,&rdquo; John Ashbery has said of this controversial work, a collection of three long prose poems originally published in 1972, adding, &ldquo;<I>Three Poems </I>tries to stay close to the way we talk and think without expecting what we say to be recorded or remembered.&rdquo;<BR />&#160;<BR />The effect of these prose poems is at once deeply familiar and startlingly new, something like encountering a collage made of lines clipped from every page of a beloved book&mdash;or, as Ashbery has also said of this work, like flipping through television channels and hearing an unwritten, unscriptable story told through unexpected combinations of voices, settings, and scenes.<BR />&#160;<BR />In <I>Three Poems</I>, Ashbery reframes prose poetry as an experience that invites the reader in through an infinite multitude of doorways, and reveals a common language made uncommonly real.<BR />&#160;<BR /></DIV>