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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking Press, 1977.
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century.
American poetry.
1900-1999
Poetry.
Table of 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 Co.
  • 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."