{"product_id":"quick-question-9780062225962","title":"Quick Question","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailed by Harold Bloom as \"America's greatest living poet,\" John Ashbery has won every major American literary award for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A beloved and gifted artist, Ashbery takes his place beside Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane in the canon of great American poets. With \u003cem\u003eQuick Question\u003c\/em\u003e, a new collection of poems published in time for his 85th birthday, John Ashbery proves that his creative power has only grown stronger with age.\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":50317941702930,"sku":"9780062225962","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31d02b21-4849-46b6-8bae-1b3b6136bbf2.jpg?v=1727543548","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quick-question-9780062225962","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}