The mooring of starting out : the first five books of poetry / John Ashbery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017, author.

Contributor:

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.

Ecco Press, publisher.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)

Chaix, Marie, 1942 (inscription) (Mathews copy)

Ashbery, John,1927-2017 (autograph, 5/7/07) (Mathews copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 391 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1997.

Summary:

The Mooring of Starting Out demonstrates the early bravado and extraordinary development of one of America's most important contemporary poets. Spanning the first sixteen years of Ashbery's career, this volume begins with the stunning first collection, Some Trees (1956), which was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and hailed by Frank O'Hara as "the most beautiful first book since Wallace Stevens's Harmonium." This is followed by The Tennis Court Oath (1962) and Rivers and Mountains (1967), a National Book Award finalist. From the seventies, comes the lyrical The Double Dream of Spring (1970), and the highly idiosyncratic and much admired prose poetry of Three Poems (1972).

Contents:

Some trees

The tennis court oath

Rivers and mountains

The double dream of spring

Three poems.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.

Mathews Collection copy has inscription: "For Harry and Marie, love, JA. NYC 5/7/97"

Mathews Collection copy hasdust jacket.

ISBN:

0880015276

9780880015271

0880015470

9780880015479

OCLC:

35723540