Houseboat Days: Poems by John Ashberry

Review
"Ashbery is astonishingly original, and though his mannerisms have been widely imitated, he himself has imitated no one."--Edmund White


Book Description
This reissue of a book of thirty-nine poems, first collected in 1977, reminds us of Ashbery's astonishing explorations (to use Donald Barthelme's words) of places where no one has ever been. "Wet Casements," "Syringa," "Loving Mad Tom," and the long "Fantasia on 'The Nut-Brown Maid,'" which concludes the book, are among the riches in a collection of dazzling eloquence and power.


About the Author
John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927 and educated at Harvard and Columbia. He is Charles P. Stevenson Jr., Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College and lives in New York City and Hudson, New York.



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This reissue of thirty-nine poems, first collected in 1977, continues Ashbery's astonishing explorations (to use Donald Barthelme's words) of places where no one has ever been. "Wet Casements, " "Syringa," "Loving Mad Tom," and the long "Fantasia on 'The Nut-Brown Maid,'" which concludes the book, are among the riches collection of dazzling eloquence and power.


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