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A wave : poems / by John Ashbery.
Van Pelt Library PS3501.S475 W3 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashbery, John, 1927-2017, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Lask Poetry Collection.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lask, Thomas (donor) (Kislak Center PS3501.S475 W3 1984)
- Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (LIBRA Rare PS3501.S475 W3 1984 Mathews copy)
- Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 (autograph) (LIBRA Rare PS3501.S475 W3 1984 Mathews copy)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 89 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, 1984.
- Contents:
- At North Farm
- Rain Moving In
- The Songs We Know Best
- When the Sun Went Down
- Landscape (After Baudelaire)
- Just Walking Around
- A Fly
- The Ongoing Story
- Thank You For Not Cooperating
- But What Is the Reader To Make of This?
- Down By the Station, Early in the Morning
- Around the Rough and Rugged Rocks the Ragged Rascal Rudely Ran
- More Pleasant Adventures
- Purists Will Object
- Description of a Masque
- The Path To the White Moon
- Ditto, Kiddo
- Introduction
- I See, Said the Blind Man, As He Put Down His Hammer and Saw
- Edition Peters, Leipzig
- 37 Haiku
- Haibun
- Haibun 2
- Haibun 3
- Haibun 4
- Haibun 5
- Haibun 6
- Variation on a Noel
- Staffage
- The Lonedale Operator
- Proust's Questionnaire
- Cups With Broken Handles
- Just Someone You Say Hi To
- They Like
- So Many Lives
- Never Seek To Tell Thy Love
- Darlene's Hospital
- Destiny Waltz
- Try Me! I'm Different!
- One of the Most Extraordinary Things in Life
- Whatever It Is, Wherever You Are
- Trefoil
- Problems
- A Wave.
- Notes:
- "Printed in the United States of America. Set in Garamond, designed by Beth Tondreau"--Title page verso.
- Jacket design Bob Silverman, Inc.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare PS3501.S475 W3 1984 Mathews copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews. With inscription: "for Harry 'mostly there were just moments ..' Love, John 11/4/84". Dust jacket retained.
- Kislak Center PS3501.S475 W3 1984 presented to the Penn Libraries by Thomas Lask.
- ISBN:
- 0670751766
- 9780670751761
- OCLC:
- 10146298
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