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Can You Hear, Bird
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**A 1995 collection of poems that finds John Ashbery at his most conversational, funny, and surprising** In *Can You Hear, Bird* , John Ashbery’s seventeenth collection, language is both a plaything and a sandbox. The poems are arranged not in the order of their composition but alphabetically, by the first letter in their titles, like the neatly arrayed keys of some fabulous Seussical instrument. In line after line, Ashbery demonstrates his alertness to language as it is spoken, heard, broadcast, and dreamed—and sets himself the task of rewriting, redefining, and revising the American idiom we think we know so well. *Can You Hear, Bird* is a decisive example of the uniquely Ashberyan sensibility his many fans love, revealing a generous and acute chronicler of the everyday bizarre, an observant and humane humorist, and an ear trained on decoding our modern world’s beguiling polyphony.
| About Author | John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and he traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to France in 1955. Best known as a poet, he has published mor |
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| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 9781480459045 |
| Pages | 184 |
| Publication Date | 09-08-2014 |
| Publisher | Open Road Media |
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