Publisher Comments

"Compulsively readable....Simon Armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version."—Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review, front-page review

lready a classic of modern translation, this fresh, vibrant work by dynamic British poet Simon Armitage updates the late fourteenth-century poem for a new generation. The story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in its depiction of Arthurian landscapes, drea... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Michael Schiavo

John Ashbery is the most influential American poet of the late 20th-century and is only the second writer, after Philip Roth, to be honored in his lifetime by the Library of America with Collected Poems: 1956-1987. A love poet of Whitmanic scope, Ashbery, one of my favorites, never fails to delight and inspire.

Publisher Comments

This long-awaited volume, a new selection of his later poems, spans ten major collections by one of America's most visionary and influential poets. Chosen by the author himself, the poems in Notes from the Air represent John Ashbery's best work from the past two decades, from the critically acclaimed April Galleons and Flow Chart to the 2005 National Book Award finalist Where Shall I Wander.

While Ashbery has long been... read more>>>