Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists

by John Ashbery

"Ashbery's poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic, though rather than writing a poem 'based on' or 'inspired' by the content of an artwork or piece of music, he engages with how the experience of seeing it and the artistic strategies employed offer ways of thinking about it and through it. Many observations from Ashbery's art writing also provide keys to how we might read his poetry. Many recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644230704
• ISBN13: 9781644230701
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: David Zwirner Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 7.0"