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A capsule of the imaginative life of the individual, Some Trees is the 52nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets

Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is “the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible.” After the publication of Some Trees, selecting judge W. H. Auden famously confessed that he didn’t understand a word of it. Most reviews were negative. But in this first book of poems from one of the century’s most important poets, one finds the seeds of Ashbery’s oeuvre, including the influence of French surrealists—many of whom he translated—and abstract expressionism.

Some Trees

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    Publisher: Yale University Press
    Publication Date: 14/01/2020
    ISBN13: 9780300246377, 978-0300246377
    ISBN10: 0300246374

    Number of Pages: 96

    Fiction , Poetry

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    A capsule of the imaginative life of the individual, Some Trees is the 52nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets

    Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is “the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible.” After the publication of Some Trees, selecting judge W. H. Auden famously confessed that he didn’t understand a word of it. Most reviews were negative. But in this first book of poems from one of the century’s most important poets, one finds the seeds of Ashbery’s oeuvre, including the influence of French surrealists—many of whom he translated—and abstract expressionism.

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