Something Close to Music - by John Ashbery

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Something Close to Music - by John AshberyAshberys poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic, though, rather than writing a poem based on or inspired by the content of an artwork or piece of music, he engages with how the experience of seeing it and the artistic strategies employed offer ways of thinking about it and through it. Many observations from Ashberys art writing also provide keys to how we might read his poetry. Many recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical works

acoustic ecology

Winner of the Politiken Literature Prize

” “Timeline 1997–today

pages and inserts of different sizes and varying holes to arouse the curiosity of the observer and let the reader literally hang at each page

or more correctly

where the Moon describes to the painter what she sees on her journey around the world every evening

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Bernadette Mayer

Graphic design by Michaël Bussaer

This book is about bodies

Edition of 185