Quick Question: New Poems (First Edition)

Ashbery, John

ISBN 10: 0062225952 / ISBN 13: 9780062225955

Published by Ecco, New York, 2012

About this Item

New York, Ecco, 2012. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy, with black remainder line top edge. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($24.99). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A late collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, reflecting Ashbery's characteristic wit, shifting tone, and layered meditations on perception and language. Ashbery, who won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award for his earlier collection "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quick Question: New Poems (First Edition)
• Publisher: Ecco, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062225952
• ISBN 13: 9780062225955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Hailed by Harold Bloom as "America’s greatest living poet," John Ashbery has won every major American literary award for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A beloved and gifted artist, Ashbery takes his place beside Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane in the canon of great American poets. With Quick Question, a new collection of poems published in time for his 85th birthday, John Ashbery proves that his creative power has only grown stronger with age.

About the Author

John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He wrote more than twenty books of poetry, including Quick Question; Planisphere; Notes from the Air; A Worldly Country; Where Shall I Wander; and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. The winner of many prizes and awards, both nationally and internationally, he received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation in 2011 and a National Humanities Medal, presented by President Obama at the White House, in 2012. Ashbery died in September 2017 at the age of ninety.