{"product_id":"something-close-to-music-late-art-writings-poems-and-playlists","title":"Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book places poetry by Ashbery (1927-2017), gathered from his later collections, in conversation with a selection of contemporaneous art writing. In addition, as Ashbery loved music and listened to it while writing, the \"playlists\" here offer representative samplings of music from these same years, culled from Ashbery's own library of recordings. Ashbery's poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic, though, rather than writing a poem \"based on'' or \"inspired\" by the content of an artwork of 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Many of the observations from Ashbery's art writing also offer keys to how we might read his poetry. Many of the recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical works that emphasize complex textures, disparate sounds, and disjunct phrases. Ashbery's poetry similarly plays with a diversity of poetic textures and sudden turns such that a reader might construct multiple narratives or pathways of meaning.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e He rarely offers linear stories or focuses on evocative descriptions of a scene or object. In exploring this ekphrastic book project, the reader is invited to discover how, for Ashbery, these three forms might illuminate and inform one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: paperback\u003cbr\u003e Published: 2022 in the USA\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: David Zwirner Inc\u003cbr\u003e Pages: 179\u003cbr\u003e Language: English\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9781644230701\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 1644230704\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Ashbery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43853845135626,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9783791382784_98e2e48b-f377-4157-b975-ffcd1b82f46f.jpg?v=1669048713","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/something-close-to-music-late-art-writings-poems-and-playlists","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}