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Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works,New
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A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous bookRenowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, booklength projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to showcase Ashberys diverse and multifaceted artistic obsessions and sources, from childrens literature, cliffhanger cinema reels, silent films, and classical music variations by Beethovens pupil Carl Czerny to the history of early photography. Ashbery even provides a fresh and humorous take on a wellworn parable from the Gospel of Matthew. These works demonstrate that while producing and publishing the shorter, discrete poems often associated with his late career, Ashbery continued to practice the longform, projectbased writing that has long been an important element of his oeuvre.Edited and introduced by Ashberys former assistant poet Emily Skillings and including a preface by acclaimed poet and novelist Ben Lerner, this compelling and varied collection offers new insights into the process and creative interests of a poet whose work continues to influence generations of artists and poets with its signature intertextuality, openness, and simultaneity. A landmark publication of neverbeforeseen works, this book will enlighten scholars as well as new readers of one of Americas most prominent and celebrated poets.
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