{"product_id":"can-you-hear-bird","title":"Can You Hear, Bird","description":"After John Ashbery's 216-page poem \u003cem\u003eFlow Chart\u003c\/em\u003e (1991) and the munificence of \u003cem\u003eHotel Lautréamont\u003c\/em\u003e (1992) and \u003cem\u003e And the Stars were Shining\u003c\/em\u003e (1994), \u003cem\u003eCan You Hear, Bird\u003c\/em\u003e provides an A to Y of poems, moments in which voices, images and tones come in for Ashbery's wily attentions. The poems are generally short. But when we get to T, 'Tuesday Evening' occurs. Tuesday evenings are long in Ashbery's America. This Tuesday begins in tight rhymed quatrains; as the evening extends, the verse relaxes to elicit and swallow up more and more, until only rhyme pins together the abundance of impulse and reflection. An \u003cem\u003ears poetica\u003c\/em\u003e seems to emerge:\u003cbr\u003e\n               An alphabet is forming words. We who watch them\u003cbr\u003e\n               never imagine pronouncing them, and another opportunity\u003cbr\u003e\n               is missed. You must be awake to catch them —\u003cbr\u003e\n               them, and the scent they give off with impunity.\u003cbr\u003e\n               We all tagged along, and in the end there was nothing\u003cbr\u003e\n               to see — nothing and a lot. A lot in terms of contour, texture,\u003cbr\u003e\n               world. That sort of thing. The real fun and its clothing","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":56747516100952,"sku":"9781857542240","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781857542240.jpg?v=1771449337","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/can-you-hear-bird","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}