"Flow Chart" is now available in German for the first time, marking John Ashbery's main work. The book-length poem has been brilliantly translated by Matthias Göritz and Uda Strätling. The verses of the New York cosmopolitan create a peculiar pull in Flow Chart, inviting readers to engage with them in a manner that is both amusing and unsettling. Ashbery has a knack for pulling the ground from beneath the seemingly composed, postmodern feet of his readers while remaining oddly cheerful and melancholic at the same time. The volume is published in a bilingual format and includes an afterword by the influential literature professor Marjorie Perloff. John Ashbery (1927) is regarded as the most significant representative of the New York School and has completed a nearly 60-year triumphal march through the history of American poetry, receiving accolades such as the Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize, National Book Award, and various honors.