John Ashbery - Önarckép konvex tükörben

There is no other poet in American poetry of the past half century who has caused as many headaches for critics and readers as John Ashbery. His career as a poet began in 1955, but the real breakthrough came for him in the 1975 work, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which won the triple runner-up of American poetry the following year: the Pulitzer Prize , the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror will become a foundational work of American postmodern poetry, and already in the years surrounding its publication, it is being talked about as a classic of contemporary poetry. One of the milestones of recent world literature can finally be read in Hungarian. John Ashbery (1927-2017) American poet, literary translator, essayist. He was born in Rochester, lived in New York from the beginning of the fifties, and became a defining figure of the New York school of poetry, considered by many critics and literary historians to be the last influential avant-garde group. More than thirty volumes of his poems were published during his lifetime, including perhaps the most important, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror in 1975. He is one of the most influential creators of post-war American and universal lyric. "Among the English poets, no one has a better chance than Ashbery of standing the harsh judgment of time..." - Harold Bloom "A style free from ostentation, a stunning ease of language that almost always enchants... No one writes as Ashbery...” – Paul Auster

21st Century Publishing House
Poem
144 pages
Binding: paperback
ISBN: 9786156122186
Author: John Ashbery
Release year: 2020