Houseboat Days: PoemsThis reissue of a book of thirty-nine poems, first collected in 1977, reminds us of Ashbery's astonishing explorations (to use Donald Barthelme's words) of places where no one has ever been. "Wet Casements," "Syringa," "Loving Mad Tom," and the long "Fantasia on 'The Nut-Brown Maid, '" which concludes the book, are among the riches in a collection of dazzling eloquence and power. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... feeling of really Being out of the world and with it . The sun Is now an inlet of freshness whose very nature Causes it to dry up . " The old poems In the book have changed value once again . Their black letter Fools only themselves ...
... feeling of really Being out of the world and with it . The sun Is now an inlet of freshness whose very nature Causes it to dry up . " The old poems In the book have changed value once again . Their black letter Fools only themselves ...
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... was discussing my money problems . I wish God would put a stop to this . I Turn and see the new moon through glass . I am yanked away So fast I lose my breath , a not unpleasant feeling . I feel as though I had been carrying the message 52.
... was discussing my money problems . I wish God would put a stop to this . I Turn and see the new moon through glass . I am yanked away So fast I lose my breath , a not unpleasant feeling . I feel as though I had been carrying the message 52.
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... feeling of being abandoned , a Distant curl of smoke above a car Graveyard . Instead , the shadows stand Straight out . Uninvited , light grabs its due ; 73 133 What is eaten away becomes etched impression Of mutability ,
... feeling of being abandoned , a Distant curl of smoke above a car Graveyard . Instead , the shadows stand Straight out . Uninvited , light grabs its due ; 73 133 What is eaten away becomes etched impression Of mutability ,
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afternoon beautiful become beginning birds Blue Sonata breath build chattels climbing clouds cold colors coming darkness distant dogs dream edge empty Eurydice everything eyes face fall Fantasia feeling flowers frieze getting gray hamburgers hand happened haze historical past owed historical present Houseboat Days Ice-Cream Wars idea Impermanent invisible JOHN ASHBERY kind landscape later leave light live look lute matter mean move never night Nut-Brown Maid once one's Orpheus past lives Pastel perhaps Poems present rain rampart rebus remembered rest sense Serious Doll shadows shore sighs silence singing skyscraper slanted snow somehow someone sometimes somewhere song space squashed stars stay storm street sunset Syringa tall tell Thief of Poetry things thought tomorrow trees turn Ut Pictura Poesis Vaguer Presences voice waiting walking walls wind windmill window woods write