''Planisphere'' is a 2009 poetry collection by the American writer
John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic.
Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...
. It consists of 99 alphabetically sequenced poems.
Reception
The book was reviewed in ''
Publishers Weekly
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'', where the critic wrote that Ashbery's "wit is still sharp, the poems still rife with clever juxtapositions and colliding voices", and that "as in his last several books, there's nothing entirely new, but ... the poems are almost always satisfying and strange".
See also
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2009 in poetry
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References
2009 poetry books
American poetry collections
Poetry by John Ashbery
HarperCollins books
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