Planisphere (poetry collection)

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Planisphere
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Author John Ashbery
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publisher HarperCollins
Publication date
2009
Pages160
ISBN 9780061915215

Planisphere is a 2009 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery. It consists of 99 alphabetically sequenced poems.

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Reception

The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly , 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". [1]

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References

  1. Staff writer (2009-11-16). "Fiction Review: Planisphere by John Ashbery". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2012-04-29.