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Three Plays
by ASHBERY, John
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- Near Fine
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Manchester: Carcanet, 1988. First U.K. Edition. Near fine/very good. Hardcover : pp. [vi] [2] 160 [2 blank] : black cloth boards : bold gilt to spine : blue flecked dust jacket : jacket not price clipped.
Head of spine gently pushed; creasing to jacket edge; small nick to jacket head. John Ashbery was recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century American poets. He won nearly every major American award for poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Griffin International Award, and a MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Ashbery's poetry challenges its readers to discard all presumptions about the aims, themes, and stylistic scaffolding of verse in favour of a literature that reflects upon the limits of language and the volatility of consciousness. In 2008, critic Langdon Hammer remarked, "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery." - Poetry Foundation.
Head of spine gently pushed; creasing to jacket edge; small nick to jacket head. John Ashbery was recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century American poets. He won nearly every major American award for poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Griffin International Award, and a MacArthur "Genius" Grant. Ashbery's poetry challenges its readers to discard all presumptions about the aims, themes, and stylistic scaffolding of verse in favour of a literature that reflects upon the limits of language and the volatility of consciousness. In 2008, critic Langdon Hammer remarked, "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery." - Poetry Foundation.
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- Bookseller
- Archives Fine Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4130
- Title
- Three Plays
- Author
- ASHBERY, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition
- Publisher
- Carcanet
- Place of Publication
- Manchester
- Date Published
- 1988
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