| Description |
349 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Penguin poets |
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Penguin poets.
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| Note |
"Elisabeth Sifton books." |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Now, from the whole range of a lifetime's work, John Ashbery has chosen his own selection of 138 poems, including short lyrics, haiku, prose poems, and many of his major long poems. |
| Contents |
Two Scenes -- Popular Songs -- The Instruction Manual -- The Grapevine -- A Boy -- Glazunoviana -- The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers -- Sonnet -- The Young Son -- Errors -- Illustration -- Some Trees -- The Painter -- And You Know -- He -- A Long Novel -- The Pied Piper -- Le Livre est sur la table -- Thoughts of a Young Girl -- How Much Longer Will I Be Able to Inhabit the Divine Sepulcher -- White Roses -- Our Youth -- An Additional Poem -- Faust -- A Last World -- From The New Realism -- Rivers and Mountains -- Last Month -- If the Birds Knew -- Into the Dusk-Charged Air -- The Ecclesiast -- The Recent Past -- A Blessing in Disguise -- Clepsydra -- From The Skaters -- The Task -- Spring Day -- Plainness in Diversity -- Soonest Mended. |
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Summer -- It Was Raining in the Capital -- Variations, Calypso and Fugue on a Theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Song -- Decoy -- For John Clare -- Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape -- Paregon -- Some Words -- The Bungalows -- The Chateau Hardware -- Sortes Vergilianae -- The System -- As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat -- Worsening Situation -- Forties Flick -- As You Came from the Holy Land -- Scheherazade -- Grand Galop -- Hop o' My Thumb -- Mixed Feelings -- Marchenbilder -- Oleum Misericordiae -- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror -- Street Musicians -- The Other Tradition -- Variant -- Wooden Buildings -- Pyrography -- The Grazing Grain -- Unctuous Platitudes -- The Couple in the Next Room -- Business Personals -- Crazy Weather. |
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On the Towpath -- Bird's-Eye View of the Tool and Die Company -- Wet Casements -- Saying It to Keep It from Happening -- Daffy Duck in Hollywood -- Houseboat Days -- The Lament upon the Waters -- And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name -- What Is Poetry -- And Others, Vaguer Presences -- The Wrong Kind of Insurance -- Friends -- The Ice-Cream Wars -- Blue Sonata -- Syringa -- From Fantasia on the "Nut-Brown Maid" -- From Litany -- Silhouette -- Many Wagons Ago -- As We Know -- Otherwise -- Flowering Death -- Haunted Landscape -- My Erotic Double -- Train Rising out of the Sea -- Late Echo -- And I'd Love You to Be in It -- Tapestry -- A Love Poem -- This Configuration -- Their Day -- A Tone Poem -- The Other Cindy -- The Plural of "Jack-in-the-Box." |
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The Pursuit of Happiness -- Punishing the Myth -- Paradoxes and Oxymorons -- Another Chain Letter -- The Ivory Tower -- At the Inn -- The Absence of a Noble Presence -- Qualm -- Here Everything Is Still Floating -- Some Old Tires -- Something Similar -- Or in My Throat -- Untilted -- The Leasing of September -- Unusual Precautions -- We Hesitate -- Frontispiece -- The Vegetarians -- At North Farm -- The SOngs We Know Best -- Landscape (After Baudelaire) -- Just Walking Around -- The Ongoing Story -- The Ongoing Story -- Thank You for Not Cooperating -- More Pleasant Adventures -- Purists Will Object -- 37 Haiku -- The Lonedale Operator -- Darlene's Hospital -- Whatever It Is, Wherever You Are -- A Wave. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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Amerikans poesi -- skönlitteratur.
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Poesi.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Collections. (OCoLC)fst01424032
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Ashbery, John, 1927- Poems. Selections. Selected poems. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1986, ©1985 (OCoLC)648412718 |
| ISBN |
0140585532 (pbk.) |
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9780140585537 (pbk.) |
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