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Manchester: Carcanet, 1981. Hard covers in tidy condition with a slightly rubbed dust jacket, a little spotting to the endpapers and page edges. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Oblong 8vo.
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- Title Hand To Mouth & Other Essays
- Author John Ashbery
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 118
- Publisher Paul Co, Manchester
- Date January 1, 1981
- ISBN 9780856353574
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As We Know - Poems
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Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1981. First edition. Hardback. Very Good. SELLER'S DESCRIPTION - first edition, first printing thus collected - British edition of major American poet, including 'Litany' in full and in two columns as the poet intended. Hardback, oblong format, 128 pages (vi, 122); publisher's Oxford-blue buckram
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Manchester, United Kingdom: Carcanet Press Ltd, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. Green cloth with dustwrapper. Slight discolouration and wear to wrapper, otherwise an excellent copy. - 'As We Know' is John Ashbery's eighth major collection of poetry, his second from Carcanet ('Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror' was published in 1977). 'As We Know' includes forty-seven short lyrical pieces and the ambitious and rewarding long poem, 'Litany'. 'Litany' is in many ways Ashbery's most ambitious long poem, written in double columns as two independent but related monologues, meant to be seen or 'overheard' simultaneously. The attempt has been to write a polyphonic dialogue, and the effect is close to that of certain modern music, in which the instruments seem to converse and argue with one another - as in Charles Ives's Second String Quartet and much of the music of Elliott Carter. In 'Litany', as in the shorter lyrics, Ashbery's verse continues to chart the…
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Carcanet New Press Ltd, 1981T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First British Edition. Previous price stickers on inside front flap of jacket. Internally very clean.
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