Publisher's Synopsis
At 20,000 words, this is one of the longest and most candid interviews John Ashbery has ever given. As well as the interview, the volume contains a career sketch, the most far-reaching bibliography of works by and about Ashbery presently available, two uncollected poems, approximately 20 pages of hitherto unpublished photographs, and a representative range of quotations from the poet's critics and reviewers
