01517nam a22002537i 4500 20261016202626.0 261016s1994 xx ||||| |||||||| p|eng d 9780374105006 0374105006 (KOHALIB)isbn-9780374105006 KOHALIB eng rda KOHALIB 811.54 23 Ashbery, John. And the stars were shining / John Ashbery. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. 99 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier John 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. Inventory: Single copy, entry 536; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A Poetry (Poetic Works by One Author) BOOK ddc 524 524 0 0 ddc 0 0 POETRY MAIN MAIN 2026-10-16 0 811.54 ASH LIB01967 2026-10-16 20:26:26 2026-10-16 BOOK