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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,
“... Karin Roffman
’s superb biography of John Ashbery’s early life concludes with a photograph of the poet striding towards the camera. He is a tallish, handsome young man. The photograph was taken in the autumn of 1955 when he was 28, shortly after he arrived in Montpellier to begin his Fulbright Fellowship ... ”
