Bold Type's Poetry Editor Ernest Hilbert writes "John Ashbery has often been described, alongside Geoffrey Hill, as the most important poet writing in English today. That any single poet might find himself in such an enviable and rarely contended position is itself a remarkable achievement in an age as aesthetically decadent and rife with poets as is our own."

Hear Ashbery read 'My Erotic Double' and read an essay on the John Ashbery Voice of the Poet recordings.