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020			_a9780374105006
020			_a0374105006
035			_a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780374105006
040			_aKOHALIB _beng _erda _cKOHALIB
082	0	4	_a811.54 _223
100	1		_aAshbery, John.
245	1	0	_aAnd the stars were shining / _cJohn Ashbery.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus, Giroux, _c1994.
300			_a99 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_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.
590			_aInventory: Single copy, entry 536; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A
650		4	_aPoetry (Poetic Works by One Author)
942			_cBOOK _2ddc
999			_c524 _d524