Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists

An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery--a prolific poet and art critic--pairing poetry...
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Author: John Ashbery
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Language: English
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Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists by Ashbery, John

Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists

$30.68

Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists

$30.68
Author: John Ashbery
Format: Paperback
Language: English
An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery--a prolific poet and art critic--pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library.

This book places poetry by Ashbery (1927-2017), gathered from his later collections, in conversation with a selection of contemporaneous art writing. In addition, as Ashbery loved music and listened to it while writing, the "playlists" here present samplings of music from these same years, culled from his own library of recordings.

Ashbery's poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic, though, rather than writing a poem "based on" or "inspired" by the content of an artwork or piece of music, he engages with how the experience of seeing it and the artistic strategies employed offer ways of thinking about it and through it. Many observations from Ashbery's art writing also provide keys to how we might read his poetry. Many recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical works that emphasize complex textures, disparate sounds, and disjunct phrases. Ashbery's poetry similarly plays with a diversity of poetic textures and sudden turns such that a reader might construct multiple narratives or pathways of meaning. He rarely offers linear stories or focuses on evocative descriptions of a scene or object.

In exploring this ekphrastic book project, the reader is invited to discover how, for Ashbery, these three forms might illuminate and inform one another. In Mónica de la Torre's introduction, she explores the connection between the three muses of music, art, and poetry, and the ekphrastic experience of reading Ashbery.

Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Published: 06/07/2022
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 6.98h x 4.23w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9781644230701

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