This new collection of thirty-nine poems from John Ashbery -- all of them written since the publication of his award-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror --continues the poet'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.
"Houseboat Days" is Ashbery's very best book, with many astonishing poems in it, some transcending even Ashbery's most beautiful earlier work. He and Elizabeth Bishop are our two living contemporaries who should be beyond all critical dispute." - Harold Bloom
"Ashbery is astonishingly original, and though his mannerisms have been widely imitated, he himself has imitated no one." -Edmund White
"The sheer range of Ashbery's style is unparalleled among contemporary writers." -Fred Moramarco
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Street to you
pier open-air
a we to inhabit
soul/wrenched
Of the other
walking streets
in an identity
sees on and on
corners, volumetrics
Under was never
easily into it
and ways
over everything:
plush barrels
of an obscure evicted
it was, and is.
Glimpses up to:
adjustment grew
each other
they knew
that knows
only forgotten
argues free
anchored
dull refrain,
over on itself
spaces among the days.
More literal,
more visible.
Question,
origin hangs
like smoke:
always up,
and left our trash,
sperm and excrement
everywhere, smeared
to make of us
what we could.
Pouring it on,
to you.
We built it
over with fake ruins,
image ourselves:
never completed
are we to inhabit
space from which
the fourth wall
is invariably missing,
as in except
by staying as we are,
with dozens
of as yet
unrealized projects,
time running out,
we fit rather easily
into it, transparent,
almost ghosts.
Birds absorbed
density too heavy,
adjustment they knew
not down the block
under but all undid it:
the wallpaper,
million all over to it.
And changes everything
and how, going
to write with
today,
necessary unimportant details.
What caused us
to start caring
whether it exists?
Water increased
always alone,
the sketched in,
and then ... silence,
or blankness,
return idea
summed up images?
So now we know
the way the
deepen the
the shadow
you bend over
squinting.
List each one
added color
the direction
of each thing,
string,
etc.
(Again) slanting barren
makes no mention
at most lines
overhead.
Somewhere near
all the efforts
puff out idea,
even implicit
dripping.
How to get out?
never unless
and that's how.
Be rags now,
hardened
permanent late
too-long.
Shadows,
bot
tom
Such simple things.
Penguin Poets
This new collection of thirty-nine poems from John Ashbery -- all of them written since the publication of his award-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror --continues the poet'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.
"Houseboat Days" is Ashbery's very best book, with many astonishing poems in it, some transcending even Ashbery's most beautiful earlier work. He and Elizabeth Bishop are our two living contemporaries who should be beyond all critical dispute."
- Harold Bloom
"Ashbery is astonishingly original, and though his mannerisms have been widely imitated, he himself has imitated no one."
-Edmund White
"The sheer range of Ashbery's style is unparalleled among contemporary writers."
-Fred Moramarco
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