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The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life Medieval Money which is not quite asThe Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashberythe winner of nearly every major American literary awardreveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on unpublished correspondence, juvenilia, and childhood diaries as well as more than one hundred hours of