About The Work
This cloth-bound book contains Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Ashbery's prose poem "Coma Berenices" alongside 11 photogravure images by Alex Katz, both longtime friends and collaborators. Titled after after the synonymous constellation, "Coma Berenices" elliptically follows a scattered array of characters over the course of the seasons, their lives whizzing by like the recurring snowball motif throughout the poem. Each page is punctuated by a black-and-white Katz image– a silhouetted man standing in shallow water, barren trees in a dark and snowy forest, a glamorous woman with blown-out hair– further deepening the enigmatic charm of Ashbery's poetry.
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Cloth bound book containing poem Coma Berenices by John Ashbery and eleven photogravure images by Alex Katz
15.25 x 14.75 x 0.88 in
38.7 x 37.5 x 2.2 cm
About The Work
This cloth-bound book contains Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Ashbery's prose poem "Coma Berenices" alongside 11 photogravure images by Alex Katz, both longtime friends and collaborators. Titled after after the synonymous constellation, "Coma Berenices" elliptically follows a scattered array of characters over the course of the seasons, their lives whizzing by like the recurring snowball motif throughout the poem. Each page is punctuated by a black-and-white Katz image– a silhouetted man standing in shallow water, barren trees in a dark and snowy forest, a glamorous woman with blown-out hair– further deepening the enigmatic charm of Ashbery's poetry.
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