{"product_id":"9780856355479-a-wave","title":"A Wave","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver forty new poems in verse and prose make up \u003cem\u003eA Wave\u003c\/em\u003e, John Ashbery's tenth collection. The title poem is a twenty-page meditation on change, loss and adjustment; it is a major poem that takes place alongside 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'and 'Litany' as a challenging masterwork of modern American poetry.\u003cbr\u003e               John Ashbery describes the way in which the rhythm of childhood memories permeates the verse of his long poem,'A Wave':\u003cbr\u003e               'Waves have always been somehow embedded in my mind because I spent a great deal of my childhood on the edge of one of the great lakes, Lake Ontario, where my grandparents lived. They're not as big as the ones on the ocean but they do get to be pretty big and you hear them all day long, and their rhythm is something that has always been with me and keeps erupting in the poetry.'\u003cbr\u003e               (talking to David Sexton, \u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e, 16th June 1983)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451438575990,"sku":"9780856355479","price":10.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28287020.jpg?v=1760462546","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780856355479-a-wave","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}