John Ashbery

John Ashbery is known foremost as a poet, but he has been creating collages for nearly as long as he s been writing poetry. He began working in the medium when he was an undergraduate at Harvard, more than seventy years ago. Now, for the first time ever, this volume compiles a comprehensive selection of Ashbery s collage work, accompanied by a selection of collage-related poems. Like his poetry, Ashbery s collage work combines art historical and pop culture references, creating often humorous juxtaposition