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One of Ashbery's most acclaimed and beloved collections since
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, filled with his signature wit and generous intelligence
The poems in John Ashbery's award-winning 1984 collection A Wave address the impermanence of language, the nature of mortality, and the fluidity of consciousness—matters of life and death that in other hands might run the risk of sentimentality. For John Ashbery, however, these considerations provide an opportunity to display his prodigious poetic gifts: the unerring ear for our evolving modern language and its ever-expanding universe of meanings, the fierce eye trained on glimmers underwater, and the wry humor that runs through observations both surprising and familiar. As the poem "The Path to the White Moon" has it, "We know what is coming, that we are moving / Dangerously and gracefully / Toward the resolution of time / Blurred but alive with many separate meanings / Inside this conversation." The long title poem of A Wave, which closes the book, is considered one of Ashbery's most distinguished works, praised by critic Helen Vendler for its "genius for a free and accurate American rendition of very elusive inner feelings, and especially for transitive states between feelings."
Winner of both the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Bollingen Prize, this book is one to be read, reread, and remembered.
The poems in John Ashbery's award-winning 1984 collection A Wave address the impermanence of language, the nature of mortality, and the fluidity of consciousness—matters of life and death that in other hands might run the risk of sentimentality. For John Ashbery, however, these considerations provide an opportunity to display his prodigious poetic gifts: the unerring ear for our evolving modern language and its ever-expanding universe of meanings, the fierce eye trained on glimmers underwater, and the wry humor that runs through observations both surprising and familiar. As the poem "The Path to the White Moon" has it, "We know what is coming, that we are moving / Dangerously and gracefully / Toward the resolution of time / Blurred but alive with many separate meanings / Inside this conversation." The long title poem of A Wave, which closes the book, is considered one of Ashbery's most distinguished works, praised by critic Helen Vendler for its "genius for a free and accurate American rendition of very elusive inner feelings, and especially for transitive states between feelings."
Winner of both the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Bollingen Prize, this book is one to be read, reread, and remembered.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Publisher's Note
- At North Farm
- Rain Moving In
- The Songs We Know Best
- When the Sun Went Down
- Landscape (After Baudelaire)
- Just Walking Around
- A Fly
- The Ongoing Story
- Thank You For Not Cooperating
- But What Is the Reader To Make of This?
- Down by the Station, Early in the Morning
- Around the Rough and Rugged Rocks the Ragged Rascal Rudely Ran
- More Pleasant Adventures
- Purists Will Object
- Description of a Masque
- The Path to the White Moon
- Ditto, Kiddo
- Introduction
- I See, Said the Blind Man, as He Put Down His Hammer and Saw
- Edition Peters, Leipzig
- 37 Haiku
- Haibun
- Haibun 2
- Haibun 3
- Haibun 4
- Haibun 5
- Haibun 6
- Variation on a Noel
- Staffage
- The Lonedale Operator
- Proust's Questionnaire
- Cups with Broken Handles
- Just Someone You Say Hi To
- They Like
- So Many Lives
- Never Seek to Tell Thy Love
- Darlene's Hospital
- Destiny Waltz
- Try Me! I'm Different!
- One of the Most Extraordinary Things in Life
- Whatever It Is, Wherever You Are
- Trefoil
- Problems
- A Wave
- About the Author
- Copyright