As we look forward to our March 7 discussion of John Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, I'm happy to report that the Library of America has just issued John Ashbery: Collected Poems, 1991-2000, the second such compilation of his poetry. (The first volume appeared in 2008, and contains his first 12 books of poetry, including the one we will be discussing. It also marked the first time the Library of America had ever published the work of a living poet.)
Reviewing this new anthology, which brings together Ashbury's last seven volumes of poetry, the Jan. 25 issue of The Economist pays glowing tribute: "His ideas are both inscrutable and sublime. ... Searching high and low through the English language, he appears to have lifted stone after stone until there was nothing left hidden."
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