The Double Dream of Spring: Poems (The\american Poetry Ser.: Vol. 8)

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Synopsis: One of Ashbery&’s most important masterworks: Widely studied, critically admired, and essential to understanding one of the modern era&’s most revolutionary poetsThe Double Dream of Spring, originally published in 1970, followed the critical success of John Ashbery&’s National Book Award–nominated collection Rivers and Mountains and introduced the signature voice—reflective, acute, and attuned to modern language as it is spoken—that just a few years later would carry Ashbery&’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashbery fans and lovers of modern poetry alike will recognize here some of the century&’s most anthologized and critically admired works of poetry, including &“Soonest Mended,&” &“Decoy,&” &“Sunrise in Suburbia,&” &“Evening in the Country,&” the achingly beautiful long poem &“Fragment,&” and Ashbery&’s so-called Popeye poem, the mordant and witty &“Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape.&” The Double Dream of Spring helped cement Ashbery&’s reputation as a must-read American poet, and no library of modern poetry is complete without it.