April Galleons: Poems By John Ashbery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashbery, John

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Poetry, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 1988.

Summary:

In this collection, first published in 1987, John Ashbery--"one of his generation's most gifted and eloquent poets" (Michuko Kakutani, "The New York Times")--offers some of his most intimate and direct poems. With breathtaking freshness, he writes of mutability, of the passage of time, and of growth, decay, and death as they are reflected in both ourselves and the changing of the seasons. By turns playful, melancholy, and mysterious, the poems in "April Galleons" reaffirm the extraordinary powers that have made Ashbery such a significant figure in the American literary landscape.

Contents:

Vetiver

Riddle Me

Morning Jitters

A Snowball in Hell

Dreams of Adulthood

A Mood of Quiet Beauty

When half the time they don't know themselves ...

Adam Snow

Forgotten Song

Finnish Rhapsody

Forgotten Sex

Insane Decisions

No i Don't Posture of Unease

Alone in the Lumber Business

Vaucanson

Unreleased Movie

Desguised Zenith

Railroad Bridge

October at the WIndow

No Two Alike

Amid Mounting Evidence

Letters I Did or Did Not Get

Frost

Life as a Book That Has Been Put Down

Too Happy, Happy Tree

Song of the Windshield Wipers

The Mouse

Song: "Mostly Places ..."

Sighs and Inhibitions

Someone You Have Seen Before

Ostensibly

Becalmed on Strange Waters

The Big Cloud

Not a First

Polite Distortions

Fourth Prize

Some Money

Winter Weather Advisory

Never to Get It Really Right

Gorboduc

The Romantic Entanglement

Wet Are the Boards

And Some Were Playing Cards, and Some Were Playing Dice

Fall Pageant

One Coat of Paint

Offshore Breeze

Savage Menace

The Leopard and the Lemur

By the Flooded Canal

Bilking the Statues

The Ice Storm

April Galleons.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.