Download or read book Collected Poems 1956-1987 written by John Ashbery and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental work traces Ashbery's work from the start of his career to his establishment as the world's greatest living English-language poet. Beginning with Some Trees (1956), chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Prize, this volume spans a dozen of his most important collections.Ashbery supervised the publication of the present volume; he specified which variant readings he prefers, approved teh editor's correction of a few unambiguous typographical errors, and advised about stanza breaks where it is not clear from teh original printings whether a page break is also a stanza break--Note on the texts, p. 1007.