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Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works

Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works

Ashbery, John
Lerner, Ben

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ISBN10: 0062968858
ISBN13: 9780062968852
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Jun 29 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous book

Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to showcase Ashbery's diverse and multifaceted artistic obsessions and sources, from children's literature, cliffhanger cinema reels, silent films, and classical music variations by Beethoven's pupil Carl Czerny to the history of early photography. Ashbery even provides a fresh and humorous take on a well-worn parable from the Gospel of Matthew. These works demonstrate that while producing and publishing the shorter, discrete poems often associated with his late career, Ashbery continued to practice the long-form, project-based writing that has long been an important element of his oeuvre.

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