The Only Alphabet
August Kleinzahler: Ashbery’s Early Life, 21 September 2017
The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life
by Karin Roffman.
Farrar, Straus, 316 pp., £25.50, June 2017,978 0 374 29384 0 Show More
by Karin Roffman.
Farrar, Straus, 316 pp., £25.50, June 2017,
“... sent the poem to her cousin Elizabeth Sherwood Rinehart, who passed it to her mother-in-law, Mary Roberts Rinehart, a popular mystery writer. Ashbery was told his poem had received ‘great acclaim’. Having thus conquered the realm of poetry, for the next few years he turned his attention to drawing and prose. But around the time Margaret Hubbell Wells ... ”