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While Ashbery is usually thought of as a complex, insular poet, he often reveals a sense of childlike wonder at the world: ``The spring, though mild, is incredibly wet./ I have spent the afternoon blowing soap bubbles.'' And if he is a writer who tackles eternal verities, the poet's selection of his verse for this collection shows that his immediate topics range from Popeye the Sailor to the Aquarian Age, Warren G. Harding and the weather. Ashbery recognizes that the creative artist today is ``barely tolerated, living on the margin/ in our technological society.'' Lyrics, long prose-poem meditations, haiku, conversational ...
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Publishers Weekly
While Ashbery is usually thought of as a complex, insular poet, he often reveals a sense of childlike wonder at the world: ``The spring, though mild, is incredibly wet./ I have spent the afternoon blowing soap bubbles.'' And if he is a writer who tackles eternal verities, the poet's selection of his verse for this collection shows that his immediate topics range from Popeye the Sailor to the Aquarian Age, Warren G. Harding and the weather. Ashbery recognizes that the creative artist today is ``barely tolerated, living on the margin/ in our technological society.'' Lyrics, long prose-poem meditations, haiku, conversational ramblings, and musings reminiscent of Wallace Stevens attest to the full range of his experimentalism. His themes are the growth of the self through pain, the possibilities for personal happiness, the distance between seeing and knowing. December
Library Journal
Self-Portrait won a Pulizer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, but Ashbery remains famously abstruse. "Something important is going on here," says LJ reviewer Graham Christian, "and on the chance that we figure it out, Selected Poems is worth having."

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140585537
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 12/28/1986
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 567,650
  • Series: Poets, Penguin Series
  • Product dimensions: 6.08 (w) x 8.86 (h) x 0.98 (d)

Table of Contents

John Ashbery: Selected Poems From Some Trees
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

From The Tennis Court Oath
Thoughts of a Young Girl
"How Much Longer Will I Be Able to Inhabit the . . ."
White Roses Our Youth An Additional Poem Faust A Last World
From The New Realism

From Rivers and Mountains
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

From The Double Dream of Spring
The Task Spring Day Plainness in Diversity Soonest Mended 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 Parergon Some Words The Bungalows The Chateau Hardware Sortes Vergilianae

From Three Poems
The System

From Self-Portrait In a Convex Mirror
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
Märchenbilder
Oleum Misericordiae
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

From Houseboat Days
Street Musicians The Other Tradition Variant Wooden Buildings Pyrography The Gazing Grain Unctuous Platitudes The Couple in the Next Room Business Personals Crazy Weather On the Towpath Bird's-Eye View of the Tool and Die Co.
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 As We Know
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"

From Shadow Train
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 Stilll Floating Some Old Tires Something Similar Or in My Throat Untilted The Leasing of September Unusual Precautions We Hesitate Frontispiece The Vegetarians

From A Wave
At North Farm The Songs We Know Best Landscape (After Baudelaire)
Just Walking Around 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

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