Can You Hear, Bird: Poems

This is Ashbery's sixteenth collection of poetry. With the exception of the title work--which Harold Bloom has called "(Ashbery's) most beautiful ... Show synopsis This is Ashbery's sixteenth collection of poetry. With the exception of the title work--which Harold Bloom has called "(Ashbery's) most beautiful long poem yet"---the fifty-eight poems in this collection are mostly short, displaying in their relative brevity all the valiant wit and rich lyric intensity that readers know from Ashbery longer works. Hide synopsis