Parallel Movement of the Hands: five unfinished longer works by John Ashbery ed. By Emily Skillings Isabel Bermudez conveying the process of grief

conveying the process of grief with its ‘pacing hours’

unearthing violence and toughness but vulnerability and tenderness also

is an even more international collaboration between Bloodaxe Books and award-winning film-maker Pamela Robertson-Pearce

Unlike their predecessors

Parallel Movement of the Hands: five unfinished longer works by John Ashbery ed. By Emily Skillings Isabel Bermudez conveying the process of griefParallel Movement of the Hands collects five long, serial poems (and prose poems) which John Ashbery left unfinished and will become part of his archive at Harvard University's Houghton Library.'In progress and realised' as their editor Emily Skillings puts it, these abundant poems are characteristic of the mature work of this American master, an adept of the glories of American speech, who is alert to its insinuating logics and its wild goose chases