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Hardcover:
9780300141900 | Yale Univ Pr, November 9, 2010, cover price $35.00
Paperback:
9780300141917 | Yale Univ Pr, September 13, 2011, cover price $27.50
A major contribution to Ashbery studies and to poetics in general.  Andrew DuBois assesses John Ashberyâs career as a poet in the context of changes in 20th-century aesthetics, the rise of the information age, and the proliferation of aural and visual stimuli. The issue of attention, he argues, is useful not only for understanding the problems of perception and concentration in an age of information overload but also for understanding how Ashberyâs poetry and poetry in general contend with those issues.  Ashberyâs art, DuBois demonstrates, embodies the conflicts between traditional and postmodern forms of communication. The lack of traditional narrative frameworks or forms in Ashberyâs poems creates problems of attention. This strategy places a heavy burden on the reader, since Ashberyâs contentâa mélange of cultural references and sympathiesâdefies set forms. Yet Ashberyâs concern with traditional poetic conventions is still clear in his work, and it is the tension between past and present modes of poetic discourse that best describes Ashberyâs work as a poet.  Among other subjects DuBois addresses Ashberyâs many rolesâas theorist, postmodern metaphysical, and enemy of poetic decorum; his experiments in ekphrasis (poems that take other art works as their subjects); his prose; his mastery of the long form as a vehicle for extended meditation; and his use of stream-of-consciousness as a poetic strategy. In highlighting the major aesthetic and cultural impulses underlying Ashberyâs work, DuBois illuminates not only the lasting relevance of his poetry but also the larger issues of attention and perception in reading, thinking, and being in the postmodern era.   Â
Hardcover:
9780817314897 | Univ of Alabama Pr, July 9, 2006, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: A major contribution to Ashbery studies and to poetics in general.
Paperback:
9780817352714 | 1 edition (Univ of Alabama Pr, July 30, 2006), cover price $34.95
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Hardcover:
9780822330264 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $99.95
Paperback:
9780822330394 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $27.95
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