[06/22/26] Ashbery, John: The Ice Storm

Hanuman Editions, paperback

Publication Date: June 22, 2026

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In The Ice Storm, an extended prose-poem, John Ashbery looks out from atop the “diamond rubble” of winter, mounting a paean to the collapsibility of seasons in time, to the “warp” and “woof” that waves through and constructs our lives.

The venerated American poet of the twentieth century, John Ashbery (1927-2017) remains a central influence upon the fragmentary and allusive literature of today. Ashbery drew on the trails of lived experience, his work abounding with turns of phrase (“these lacustrine cities”) that conjured whole monuments of the observed and sensed. Alongside his counterparts among the New York School and the French Surrealists, Ashbery belonged to a culture that centered the artist, as he was one, a pointillist of postmodern splintering likewise driven by a phenomenological urge to account for and embrace All.