{"product_id":"commotion-of-the-birds-new-poems-9780062565105","title":"Commotion of the Birds: New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA moving new collection from one of America's greatest poets, now in paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than sixty years, the poems of John Ashbery have served as signposts guiding us through the delights, woes, hypocrisies, and uncertainties of living in the modern world. With language harvested from everyday speech, fragments of pop culture, and objects and figures borrowed from art and literature, his work makes light out of darkness, playing with tone and style to show how even the seemingly frivolous stuff of existence can be employed to express the deepest levels of feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommotion of the Birds, \u003c\/em\u003e his twenty-seventh collection, once again showcases Ashbery's mastery of a staggering range of voices and his singular lyric agility: wry, frank, contemplative, resigned, bemused, and ecstatic. The poet in this new collection is at once removed from and immersed in the terrain of his examination. Disarmingly conversational, he invites the reader to join him in looking out onto the future with humor, curiosity, and insight. The lines of these poems achieve a low-humming, thrilling point of vibration, a jostling of feathers before flight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAshbery, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Ashbery \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He wrote more than twenty books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eQuick Question; Planisphere; Notes from the Air; A Worldly Country; Where Shall I Wander; \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. The winner of many prizes and awards, both nationally and internationally, he received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation in 2011 and a National Humanities Medal, presented by President Obama at the White House, in 2012. Ashbery died in September 2017 at the age of ninety.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51889970872594,"sku":"9780062565105","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1c926cae-01ad-4f22-80d7-060095f4b43e.jpg?v=1768304801","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/commotion-of-the-birds-new-poems-9780062565105","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}