Collected poems

Author(s)

• Ashbery, John
• Ford, Mark
• Kermani, David

Bibliographic Information

Collected poems

John Ashbery ; [Mark Ford, editor]

（The library of America, 187, 297 [i.e. 301]）

Library of America, c2008-

• 1956-1987
• 1991-2000

Note

"Chronology [of John Ashbery]": 1956-1987: p. 993-1005; 1991-2000: p. 771-786

"Note on the texts": 1956-1987: p. 1006-1013; 1991-2000: p. 787-790

"Notes": 1956-1987: p. 1014-1029; 1991-2000: p. 791-808

"Index of titles and first lines": 1956-1987: p. 1030-1042; 1991-2000: p. 809-819

"Chronology by Mark Ford and David Kermani"--On t.p. of 1991-2000

Series no. of "1990-2000" should read 301 not 297--Erratum

Contents of Works

• 1956-1987. Some trees
• The tennis court oath
• Rivers and mountains
• The double dream of spring
• Three poems
• The Vermont notebook
• Self-portrait in a convex mirror
• Houseboat days
• As we know
• Shadow train
• A wave
• April galleons
• 1991-2000. Hotel Lautréamont
• And the stars were shining
• Can you hear, bird
• Wakefulness
• Girls on the run
• Your name here

Description and Table of Contents

Description

To celebrate John Ashbery's ninetieth birthday, the Library of America presents the second volume of his collected poems, spanning a crucial and prolific decade in the poet's life and work. Having received wide acclaim and numerous awards over the first half of his career, in the 1990s Ashbery continued to strike out in new directions, writing in a style that is at once playful and cerebral, relaxed and precise, dreamlike in its imagery and associations yet exquisitely attuned to the everyday rythyms of American speech. This volume opens with one of Ashbery's indispensable works, the book-length poem Flow Chart (1991), here for the first time in a complete text that restores 38 lines inadvertently omitted from all previous editions. Weaving a spell through its long lines, which unfold in mesmerizing and unexpected ways, Flow Chart offers an account of the poet's mind that complements Ashbery's earlier Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. It also provides a vision of the collective odream of everyday life that was our / beginning, and where we still live, out in the open, under clouds stacked up in a holding pattern / like pictures in a nineteenth-century museum.o

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Details

• NCID: BA86841056
• ISBN:
  • 9781598530285
  • 9781598535358
• LCCN: 2008928291
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [New York, N.Y.]
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 21 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00080739