"Ashbery is a national treasure."
--New York Times Book Review
The poetry of John Ashbery has been awarded virtually every conceivable
literary prize including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize,
the Griffin, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Planisphere
is a new collection by one of America's most innovative and influential
poets--an exceptional artist whose work stands alongside the finest of
Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane. For more than half a
century Ashbery has been producing timeless works such as Chinese
Whispers, Hotel Lautréamont, A Wave, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,
and Where Shall I Wander. Planisphere is proof that the master only
improves with age.