BOOKS by John Ashbery

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1	Girls on the Run: A Poem more books like this by John Ashbery This work is a poem loosely based on the works of the "outsider" artist Henry Darger (1892-1972), a recluse who toiled for decades at an enormous illustrated novel about the adventures of a plucky band of little girls. The Vivians are threatened by human tormentors, supernatural demons and cataclysmic storms; their calmer moments are passed in ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $11.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Self-portrait in a convex mirror more books like this by John Ashbery John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'. Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing explorations of places where no one has ever been. see all copies from $3.98! new only from $6.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Selected Poems more books like this by John Ashbery This volume contains John Ashbery's own selection drawn from ten collections of his poetry, including short lyrics, haiku, prose poems, a selection from "Shadow Train" and several of his major long poems, notably "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	A Nest of Ninnies more books like this by John Ashbery, James Schuyler The Tosti sisters of Paris, France, have come to the small, upstate New York village of Kelton for a change of pace. But when the pair enters the lives of Alice, an unfulfilled cellist, her brother Marshall, and Fabia and Victor, another sister and brother who are as bumbling as they are overindulged, it is certain that Kelton will never again be ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems more books like this by John Ashbery Winner of the 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize His long-awaited volume, a new selection of his later poems, spans ten major collections by one of America's most visionary and influential poets. Chosen by the author himself, the poems in Notes from the Air represent John Ashbery's best work from the past two decades, from the critically ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $11.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Hotel Lautreamont more books like this by John Ashbery Critics and readers have long appreciated Ashbery's uncanny use of the cadences of colloguial speech, but they have perhaps overlooked the equally important influences of Rimbaud, Raymond Roussel, and the pseudonymous Count de Lautreamont. These presences are wonderfully alive in this superb new collection. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Almost at the End more books like this by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Antonina W Bouis (Translator), John Ashbery (Foreword by) Alternating brilliant poetry and prose, Yevtushenko juxtaposes his public persona with his private world in these meditations on love, literature, film, children, the Grand Canyon, Hitler, and more. Yevtushenko will go on a 26-city American tour from November 1986-Janurary 1987. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Worldly Country: New Poems more books like this by John Ashbery On the heels of his National Book Award-nominated "Where Shall I Wander" comes a breathtaking book of new poems from John Ashbery. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Mooring of Starting Out more books like this by John Ashbery "For this not being sure, this careless / Preparing, sowing the seeds crooked tn the furrow, / Making ready to forget, and always coming back/To the mooring of starting out, that day so long ago" (from "Soonest Mended"). This beautiful large volume incorporates Ashbery's books from the mid-50s through early 70s: see all copies from $7.48! new only from $7.48! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957-1987 more books like this by John Ashbery For over three decades John Ashbery has been a leading art critic - or, as he prefers, 'a sort of art critic' - unusual in his ability to speak to general readers as well as specialists. This selection by David Bergman concentrates on work for the 'Herald Tribune', 'Art News', 'Newsweek' and 'New York', written in Paris, New York and elsewhere. It ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Where Shall I Wander: New Poems more books like this by John Ashbery You meant more than life to me. I lived through you not knowing, not knowing I was living. I learned that you called for me. I came to where you were living, up a stair. There was no one there. No one to appreciate me. The legality of it upset a chair. Many times to celebrate we were called together and where we had been there was nothing there, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems more books like this by John Ashbery John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated ... see all copies from $8.09! new only from $10.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Some Trees more books like this by John Ashbery Chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets series, this 1956 volume contains some of Ashbery's most formalist poetry, including a sestina ("The Painter") written while he was an undergraduate at Harvard. Other notable poems in the volume include the much-anthologized "The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers" and "The Instruction ... see all copies from $11.00! signed copies \| first editions
14	Drawings and Digressions more books like this by Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman, John Ashbery (Foreword by) see all copies from $5.00! new only from $26.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	A Wave: Poems more books like this by John Ashbery First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, "A Wave" is widely considered one of Ashbery's finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here--particularly the long title-poem--find the poet applying his uniquely lyric, meditative, and often hilarious sensibility to the mysterious and incessant curves and crests of love, art, ... see all copies from $4.17! new only from $20.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Flow Chart: A Poem more books like this by John Ashbery A book-length poem that has been called Ashbery's greatest work. see all copies from $4.07! new only from $97.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Chinese Whispers: Poems more books like this by John Ashbery Chinese Whispers is the British name of a game called Telephone in America. According to a certain "Professor Hoffmann" in his book "Drawing Room Amusements "(1879), "the participants are arranged in a circle, and the first player whispers a story or message to the next player, and so on round the circle. The original story is then compared with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Wakefulness: Poems more books like this by John Ashbery Passions, leaves, loves, flutes, insects, paintings, apologies, and partings, all feature in this collection of poetry by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Ashbery. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	How I Wrote Certain of My Books more books like this by Raymond Roussel, Harry Matthews (Translator), John Ashbery (Translator) An introduction to the works of Roussel, including the title memoir, two illustrated works, and excerpts from other writings. see all copies from $14.36! new only from $14.36!
20 view cover	Can You Hear, Bird: Poems more books like this by John Ashbery After John Ashberry's "Flow Chart" (1991), "Hotel Lautreamont" (1992) and "And the Stars were Shining" (1994), this work provides an A-Y of poems, moments in which voices, images and tones come in for his attention. The poems are generally short, except for "T" when "Tuesday Evening" occurs. The poem begins in tight rhymed quatrains; as the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 more books like this by John Ashbery With this volume, The Library of America inaugurates a collected edition of the works of Americaas preeminent living poet. Beginning with "Some Trees" in 1956, John Ashbery has charted a profoundly original and individual course that has opened up pathways for subsequent generations of poets. At once hermetic and exuberantly curious, meditative ... see all copies from $25.87! new only from $25.87! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Alfred and Guinevere more books like this by James Schuyler, John Ashbery (Introduction by) This poetic novel by New York School poet Schuyler progresses only through the dialogue of the title characters, a sister and brother sent to their grandmother's house for the summer, and through Guinevere's diary. The poet John Ashbery introduces this edition, which reprints an original that had been out of print since the middle of the 20th ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.38! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Selected Prose more books like this by John Ashbery, Eugene Richie (Editor) "By the end of the book, Ashbery has laid out not only a course in contemporary poetics but a portrait of the artist teaching himself to become a thoroughly Modernist poet---in small bites, easy to savor, easy to digest." ---"Los Angeles Times Book Review" "This is a marvelous book by one of our greatest poets. Reading John Ashbery's "Selected ... see all copies from $9.77! new only from $15.36! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Other Traditions more books like this by John Ashbery One of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading "in order to get started" when writing, poets he turns to as "a poetic jump-start for times when the batteries have run down". Among those whom John Ashbery reads at such times are John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, ... see all copies from $6.24! new only from $15.97! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Vermont Notebook more books like this by John Ashbery This 1975 collaboration between poet John Ashbery and artist Joe Brainard has long been out of print. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $10.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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