An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery\u2014a prolific poet and art critic\u2014pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library.<\/p>\n
This book places poetry by Ashbery (1927\u20132017), 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 \u201cplaylists\u201d here present samplings of music from these same years, culled from his own library of recordings. <\/p>\n
Ashbery\u2019s poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic, though, rather than writing a poem \u201cbased on\u201d or \u201cinspired\u201d 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n
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 M\u00f3nica de la Torre\u2019s introduction, she explores the connection between the three muses of music, art, and poetry, and the ekphrastic experience of reading Ashbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Format: Pocket
\nUtgivelses\u00e5r: 2022
\nForlag: David Zwirner
\nSpr\u00e5k: Engelsk
\nAntall sider: 96
\nH\u00f8yde: 107 mm
\nBredde: 177 mm
\nLengde: 18 mm
\nVekt: 152 g
\nSerie: Ekphrasis
\nISBN: 9781644230701<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"afm_hide_title":false,"_afm_post_new_title":"","afm_terms_sep_product_language":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_post_translations":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_brand":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_type":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_visibility":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_cat":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_tag":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_product_shipping_class":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_pos_product_visibility":", ","afm_terms_sep_product_pa_cindy-sherman-art-bag":", "},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[173,92],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64572","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-3106-anskaffede-boker","6":"product_cat-all-products","7":"product_shipping_class-plakat","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"group_of_quantity":0,"min_quantity":0,"max_quantity":"","exclude_order_quantity_value_rules":"no","exclude_category_quantity_rules":"no","combine_variations":"no","yoast_head":"\n