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Offers a collection of poems that share the author's later-in-life perspectives.
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<p>“Ashbery is a national treasure.”<br>—<em>New York Times Book Review</em><p></p></p><p><p> </p></p><p>The poetry of John Ashbery has been awarded virtually every conceivable literary prize including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. <em>Planisphere </em>is a new collection by one of America’s most innovative and influential poets—an exceptional artist whose work stands alongside the finest of Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane. For more than half a century Ashbery has been producing timeless works such as <em>Chinese Whispers, Hotel Lautréamont, A Wave, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,</em> and <em>Where Shall I Wander</em>. <em>Planisphere </em>is proof that the master only improves with age.<p></p></p>
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