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Your Name Here : Poems By John Ashbery
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashbery, John
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
- Summary:
- A mesmerizing, endlessly entertaining collection that shows John Ashbery at his most exuberant, honest, and inviting John Ashbery's nineteenth original collection of poetry, first published in 2000, might be one of the "Ashberyest" of his long and varied career. In these poems, the slippery pronouns (who is speaking, who is being spoken to?), the high-low allusions (Daffy Duck, please meet Rimbaud), and the twists of context (where are we anyway, and what's happening here?) that have long been hallmarks of Ashbery's poetry are on full, rambunctious display. Beginning with the book's very title, Ashbery invites the reader into the world of his poetry like never before; each poem can be read as a postcard to experiences that could be yours, his, or anyone's. And yet the poems in Your Name Here are also personal and particular. The collection is dedicated to an old friend, and in the well-known "History of My Life," Ashbery strikes a rare autobiographical chord. Some of the best-known poems of Ashbery's later career are here, including "Not You Again," "Crossroads in the Past," and "They Don't Just Go Away, Either." Polyphonic, deeply honest, and frequently very funny, Your Name Here is both wonder filled and wonderful.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Publisher's Note
- This Room
- If You Said You Would Come with Me
- A Linnet
- The Bobinski Brothers
- Not You Again
- Terminal
- Merrily We Live
- Brand Loyalty
- Rain in the Soup
- Bloodfits
- Implicit Fog
- Dream Sequence (Untitled)
- What Is Written
- Caravaggio and His Followers
- Industrial Collage
- Frogs and Gospels
- Weekend
- Get Me Rewrite
- Invasive Procedures
- Paperwork
- The History of My Life
- Toy Symphony
- Memories of Imperialism
- Strange Occupations
- Full Tilt
- The File on Thelma Jordan
- Two for the Road
- Heartache
- The Fortune Cookie Crumbles
- Onion Skin
- Redeemed Area
- Variations on "La Folia
- De Senectute
- The Gods of Fairness
- Who Knows What Constitutes a Life
- Sacred and Profane Dances
- Here We Go Looby
- Avenue Mozart
- Life Is a Dream
- Vowels
- Beverly of Graustark
- The Pearl Fishers
- They Don't Just Go Away, Either
- Conventional Wisdom
- And Again, March is Almost Here
- A Descent into the Maelstrom
- Sonatine Mélancolique
- Stanzas before Time
- A Postcard from Pontevedra
- A Suit
- Crossroads in the Past
- The Water Inspector
- Cinéma Vérité
- The Old House in the Country
- Autumn Basement
- Hang-Up Call
- Lost Profile
- How Dangerous
- Humble Pie
- More Hocketing
- Amnesia Goes to the Ball
- Railroaded
- Honored Guest
- Our Leader is Dreaming
- Last Legs
- Lemurs and Pharisees
- The Underwriters
- Pale Siblings
- Nobody Is Going Anywhere
- Poem on Several Occasions
- Slumberer
- Pot Luck
- Short-Term Memory
- Vendanges
- Small City
- Vintage Masquerade
- To Good People Who Should Be Going Somewhere Else
- Another Aardvark
- Has to Be Somewhere
- The Don's Bequest
- Strange Cinema
- A Star Belched
- When Pressed
- The Impure
- Crowd Conditions.
- Enjoys Watching Foreign Films
- Fade In
- Over at the Mutts'
- Pastilles for the Voyage
- Of the Light
- Your Name Here
- About the Author
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-374-52783-0
- OCLC:
- 890982563
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