| Description |
vi, 88 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Jacket design by Mel Williamson. |
| Contents |
Street Musicians -- The Other Tradition -- Variant -- Collective Dawns -- Wooden Buildings -- Pyrography -- The Gazing Grain -- Unctuous Platitudes -- The Couple in the Next Room -- The Explanation -- Loving Mad Tom -- Business Personals -- Crazy Weather -- On the Towpath -- Melodic Trains -- Birds-Eye View of the Tool and Die Company -- Wet Casements -- Saying It to Keep It from Happening -- Daffy Duck in Hollywood -- All Kinds of Caresses -- Lost and Found and Lost Again -- Two Deaths -- Houseboat Days -- Whether It Exists -- The Lament upon the Waters -- Drame Bourgeois -- And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name -- What Is Poetry -- And Others, Vaguer Presences -- The Wrong Kind of Insurance -- The Serious Doll -- Friends -- The Thief of Poetry -- The Ice-Cream Wars -- Valentine -- Blue Sonata -- Spring Light -- Syringa -- Fantasia on "The Nut-Brown Maid". |
| Note |
Not listed in Kermani, D.K., John Ashbery. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Added Author |
Williamson, Mel, book jacket designer.
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Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990, donor. DLC
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Ashbery, John, 1927- Houseboat days. New York : Viking Press, 1977 (OCoLC)643920176 |
| ISBN |
0670380350 |
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9780670380350 |
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