Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The Invisible Avant-Garde: Nature, New Realism, and Ashbery's France
2: The Delta of Living into Everything: Ashbery's Riverine Poetics
3: A Language That Is Ever Green: Ashbery's Pastoral
4: Out of the Endless Bathos: Ashbery's 'Bad' Nature Poetry
5: The Season Is Stalled: Ashbery's Changing Climate
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Dr Stephen J. Ross earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2013. He is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and from 2013-15 he was a Teaching Fellow in American Literature at the University of Warwick. He is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury Press), and is collaborating on the first complete translation and critical edition of Processions, the poetic masterpiece
of the Yiddish American modernist Mikhl Likht. He publishes essays and reviews on modern and contemporary literature, and is a founding editor of the literary web-journal Wave Composition.