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Readers of John Ashbery's recent book Flow Chart will find the continuation of its spirit, at once tragic and playful, dense and volatile, passionate and impersonal, in this extraordinary new collection of lyric poems. The title Hotel Lautréamont alludes to the pseudonymous Count de Lautréamont...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 (Author)
Other Authors: DeWilde, Barbara (book jacket designer.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century.
American poetry.
1900-1999
Poetry.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Light Turnouts
  • And Forgetting
  • The Large Studio
  • The Garden of False Civility
  • Autumn Telegram
  • Notes from the Air
  • Still Life with Stranger
  • Hotel Lautréamont
  • On the Empress's Mind
  • The Phantom Agents
  • From Estuaries, from Casinos
  • Cop and Sweater
  • Musica Reservata
  • Susan
  • The King
  • The Whole Is Admirably Composed
  • By Forced Marches
  • Autumn on the Thruway
  • The Little Black Dress
  • Part of the Superstititon
  • The Art of Speeding
  • American Bar
  • From Palookaville
  • Another Example
  • Avant de Quitter Ces Lieux
  • The White Shirt
  • Baked Alaska
  • Private Syntax
  • Not Now but in Forty-five Minutes
  • In Another Time
  • Withered Compliments
  • The Wind Talking
  • Joy
  • Irresolutions on a Theme of La Rochefoucauld
  • A Call for Papers
  • Love's Old Sweet Song
  • Wild Boys of the Road
  • Le Mensonge de Nina Petrovna
  • Of Linnets and Dull Time
  • Korean Soap Opera
  • A Driftwood Altar
  • Poem at the New Year
  • Central Air
  • The Youth's Magic Horn
  • Brute Image
  • Of Dreams and Dreaming
  • Seasonal
  • Kamarinskaya
  • Elephant Visitors
  • The Great Bridge Game of Life
  • The Departed Lustre
  • Villanelle
  • A Sedentary Existence
  • Erebus
  • The Old Complex
  • Where We Went for Lunch
  • As Oft It Chanceth
  • Retablo
  • A Mourning Forbidding Valediction
  • I Found Their Advice
  • French Opera
  • A Stifled Notation
  • Haunted Stanzas
  • Livelong Days
  • Quartet
  • [untitled]
  • Oeuvres Complètes
  • Just Wednesday
  • In My Way / On My Way
  • No Good at Names
  • Film Noir
  • In Vain, Therefore
  • The Beer Drinkers
  • That You Tell
  • A Hole in Your Sock
  • And Socializing
  • Revisionist Horn Concerto
  • The Woman the Lion Was Supposed to Defend
  • Harbor Activities
  • It Must Be Sophisticated
  • Alborada
  • How to Continue.