Nation Topics - John Ashbery | The Nation

Tibor de Nagy’s Painters & Poets; Bill Berkson’s For the Ordinary Artist; William Corbett’s Albert York.

The Grand Piano is a highbrow Friends—a collective history of the early years of Language poetry.

In Javier Marías's trilogy Your Face Tomorrow, the self is composed of borrowed languages and an uncertain voice.

Nothing is simple in the poems of James Schuyler, not even the formal austerity of looking out a window.

Life in America is once more approaching John Ashbery, from one drifty moment to the next.

The brilliant revelations and transformations of Dorothea Tanning.

Barbara Guest's Collected Poems showcase her knack
for catching sight of time in its act of escaping one's grasp.

Reading the letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.

The Canadian filmmaker discusses his new film, My Winnipeg, and the importance of cultivating a personal mythology.

The Zen reflections in Philip Whalen's poetry have been collected in one beautiful book.