01382nam a22002177i 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802000150007603500320009104000310012308200150015410000190016924500480018826400470023630000130028333600260029633700280032233800270035052007470037765000400112420261016202626.0261016s1994    xx ||||| |||||||| p|eng d  a9780374105006  a0374105006  a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780374105006  aKOHALIBbengerdacKOHALIB04a811.542231 aAshbery, John.10aAnd the stars were shining /cJohn Ashbery. 1aNew York :bFarrar, Straus, Giroux,c1994.  a99 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aJohn Ashbery's sixteenth collection of poems, like all the others, strikes out into new territory and engages the reader in new and unexpected ways. With the exception of the title poem, which concludes the volume - a thirteen-part poem of exceptional grace and brilliance - the fifty-eight poems in this collection are mostly short; in their relative brevity they display all the valiant wit and rich lyric intensity which readers know from Ashbery's expansive longer work. The critic Harold Bloom has observed: "And the Stars Were Shining is one of John Ashbery's strongest collections, the title poem his most beautiful long poem yet. He helps to redeem a bad time when many among us have joined in a guilty flight away from the aesthetic. 4aPoetry (Poetic Works by One Author)