{"product_id":"mooring-of-starting-out","title":"Mooring of Starting Out","description":"To mark John Ashbery's seventieth birthday, Carcanet publish his first five books of poems in a single volume. Much of this work has never been published in full in Britain, most of it -- apart from poems included in his 1985 \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e -- has been unavailable for years. To have the full text of \u003cem\u003eThe Tennis Court Oath \u003c\/em\u003e(1962) alongside \u003cem\u003eSome Trees\u003c\/em\u003e (1956, selected by W.H.Auden for the Yale Younger Poets series, described by Frank O'Hara as `the most beautiful first book to appear in America since Wallace Stevens' \u003cem\u003eHarmonium\u003c\/em\u003e), shows just how rapidly, and with what authority, Ashbery found his own way. \u003cem\u003eRivers and Mountains \u003c\/em\u003e(1966), \u003cem\u003eThe Double Dream of Spring\u003c\/em\u003e (1970, with which British readers first made his acquaintance a couple of years later) and \u003cem\u003eThree Poems (\u003c\/em\u003e1972), one of his most innovative works, complete what is in effect the Collected Early Poems.","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56766695407960,"sku":"9781857543667","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781857543667_2479b26d-351a-4aa7-8eaa-92bdbe6b5e93.jpg?v=1778823966","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mooring-of-starting-out","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}