As umbrellas follow rain / John Ashbery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017, author.

Contributor:

Burckhardt, Tom, illustrator.

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.

Qua Books, publisher.

Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 (autograph, December 28, 2001) (Mathews copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 48 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Limited edition.

Place of Publication:

Lenox, Massachusetts : Qua Books, [2001]

Contents:

THE CORRUPT TEXT

A NICE PRESENTATION

ECHOLALIA RAG

ALONE, I

ORNERY FISH

RANOOM JOTTINGS OF AN OLO MAN

SIGNS

BUT THESE ARE MERELY QUIBBLES

CHINESE WHISPERS

DON'T ASK

THE DECALS IN THE HALLWAY

DISAGREEABLE GLIMPSES

THE EVENING OF GREUZE

THE AMERICAN

FROM THE DIARY OF A MOLE

IN THE TIME OF PUSSY WILLOWS

LOCAL LEGENO

A MAN CLAMORED

MOON, MOON

MEET ME TONIGHT IN DREAMLANO

PORTRAIT WITH A GOAT

INTRICATE FASTING

YOU WHO

RUNWAY

THE TAKEN

THREE PHILOSOPHERS

UNDER CELLOPHANE

WHAT TO DO WITH MILK

AS UMBRELLAS FOLLOW RAIN

TRUTH GLEAMS.

machine generated note.

Notes:

Jacket art by Tom Burckhardt.

" ... limited to 1000 clothbound copies in wrappers, 100 of which are numbered & signed by the author and the artist."--Colophon.

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 lovingly, John. December 28, 2001. 'As a group we were somewhat vulnerable and are so today'.--p.20". Dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0970876319

9780970876317

OCLC:

1204298607