description: John Ashbery's new collection speaks from the haunted, ambiguous cities of the twenty-first century. These are the landscapes of the worldly country we have created, both ominous and absurd. Perspectives dissolve into dazzle. The clock is ticking: we are on the wrong set and the cameras are rolling. Ashbery's supple, vigorous idiom conjures an unpredictable world, astonished by moments of piercing directness: the pause to share a winter pear, the sudden apprehension that the places we left fallow 'will be cultivated by another'. A Worldly Country tells us where we are, now exhilarating, now vertiginous; full of heartbreak and (as always with Ashbery) full of every kind of mirth, from the most sombre to the most enchanted.
language: English
title: A Worldly Country
titlecomplete: A Worldly Country
genres: Literature, American, 21st Century, Poetry
ratings_count: 254
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premio La tormenta en un vaso
category: Mejor libro escrito en otras lenguas
publisher: Carcanet Press