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The Double Dream of Spring
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, originally published in 1970, followed the critical success of John Ashbery's National Book Award–nominated collection
and introduced the signature voice—reflective, acute, and attuned to modern language as it is spoken—that just a few years later would carry Ashbery's Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece
. Ashbery fans and lovers of modern poetry alike will recognize here some of the century's most anthologized and critically admired works of poetry, including "Soonest Mended," "Decoy," "Sunrise in Suburbia," "Evening in the Country," the achingly beautiful long poem "Fragment," and Ashbery's so-called Popeye poem, the mordant and witty "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape."
helped cement Ashbery's reputation as a must-read American poet, and no library of modern poetry is complete without it.
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About John Ashbery
's latest book of poems is
. From 1960 to 1965, he was the
art critic and
Paris correspondent. France has named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Officier of the Légion d'Honneur. He has received a National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and President Obama awarded him a National Humanities Medal.
and
's latest poetry book is
They have edited Ashbery's essays in
and in
, as well as his translations of Pierre Martory. She teaches at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; he is the director of writing at Pace University.
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