The Mooring Of Starting Out

Download or read book The Mooring Of Starting Out written by John Ashbery and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most critics would agree that John Ashbery is one of 20th-century American poetry's finest voices. Perhaps his most admired book is Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, a culmination of themes, styles, and forms with which the poet experimented over the course of two decades. Now, the poet's devoted readers can trace his development through the first five books of his poetry, collected here in one handy volume. The Mooring of Starting Out represents Ashbery's work from 1956 through 1972, comprising Some Trees, his first book; The Tennis Court Oath, written while he was living in Paris.