Free Houseboat Days: Poems by John Ashbery

“Street Musicians,” “The Gazing Grain,” “Wet Casements,” and “Friends.” The New Yorker: “Melodic Trains,” “Collective Dawns,” “The Lament upon the Waters,” “The Wrong Kind of Insurance.” Poetry : “The Ice-Cream Wars,” “Blue Sonata,” “Syringa,” and “Fantasia on ‘The Nut-Brown Maid’” Roof : “Two Deaths.” The Scotsman : “The Explanation.” Spectator : “And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name.” Sun : “And Others, Vaguer Presences.” Times Literary Supplement: “Business Personals” and “Daffy Duck in Hollywood.” Vanderbilt Poetry Review : “What Is Poetry.” Yale French Studies : “Drame Bourgeois.” Z: “The Other Tradition” and “Wooden Buildings.”
    “The Serious Doll” was first published by the Kermani Press. “Pyrography” was commissioned by the U.S. Department of the Interior for its Bicentennial exhibition, “America 1976,” and first appeared in the exhibition catalog published by the Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation.
    Copyright © 1975, 1976, 1977 by John Ashbery
    Cover design by Mimi Bark
    978-1-4804-5945-8
    This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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