{"product_id":"9780820329734-john-ashbery-and-you","title":"John Ashbery and You","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis Later Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy showing us that the entry point to Ashbery is not any given individual poem within a volume, but the entire volume, Vincent gives us a new and productive approach to reading the recent work of one of our most challenging poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Ashbery and You\u003c\/i\u003e approaches Ashbery’s critically neglected recent poetry with an ear to his use of the supremely elastic pronoun “you” and an eye toward his construction of his books as books. Together, these devices produce effects new to Ashbery’s oeuvre and offer readers new ways “in” to his work. \u003ci\u003eJohn Ashbery and You\u003c\/i\u003e argues that starting with \u003ci\u003eApril Galleons\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), and reaching an apex in \u003ci\u003eYour Name Here\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), the poet has been paying increasingly keen and affectionate attention to his readers. Vincent tracks these techniques but above all offers his readers tools to reapproach a dauntingly difficult body of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome critics have suggested that Ashbery is producing books too quickly for criticism to keep up or that the later books represent, as Vincent summarizes it, “a kind of logorrhea . and therefore don’t really register as separate events as much as episodic eruptions of one big volcano which is the Later Ashbery.” Vincent contends that critics are not keeping up with Ashbery not so much because it is all of a piece, but rather because his work varies so much from volume to volume. Each of the volumes from the latter part of Ashbery’s career represents an individual and different poetic project, depending precisely on the unit of the book to produce its effects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy showing us that the entry point to Ashbery is not any given individual poem within a volume, but the entire volume, Vincent gives us a new and productive approach to reading the recent work of one of our most challenging poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54812059042166,"sku":"9780820329734","price":49.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31384897.jpg?v=1732128717","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780820329734-john-ashbery-and-you","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}