{"product_id":"and-the-stars-were-shining-2","title":"And the Stars Were Shining","description":"After the \u003cem\u003e `monstrous, magnificent sprawl\u003c\/em\u003e' of John Ashbery's 216-page poem \u003cem\u003eFlow Chart \u003c\/em\u003e(1991) and the further munificence of \u003cem\u003eHotel Lautreamont \u003c\/em\u003e(1992), his sixteenth collection, \u003cem\u003eAnd the Stars were Shining\u003c\/em\u003e, includes a thirteen-part title poem which is a major achievement in American poetry, with the wise wit and heartbreak of Ashbery's urbane, unsettle imagination, subject to time's encroachments and the vagaries of the human heart.\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003e`He is quite simply\u003c\/em\u003e,' The Times said, \u003cem\u003e `the finest poet in English of his generation\u003c\/em\u003e,' a generation that includes his friends Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, as well as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. He moves tradition forward with a deceptively casual style. Language is \u003cem\u003e `a landscape sweeping out from us to disappear on the horizon\u003c\/em\u003e', into which he moves with assurance, without fixed direction, finding a way.\u003cbr\u003e\n               And the Stars were Shining includes fifty-nine poems marked by the valiant comedy and lyric intensity we have come to expect of Ashbery.","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56747021369688,"sku":"9781857540666","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781857540666.jpg?v=1778781631","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/and-the-stars-were-shining-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}