{"product_id":"selected-poems-isbn-9780140585537","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelections from the first three decades of the poetry of John Ashbery, author of \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe late John Ashbery was a poet whose “teasing, delicate, soulful lines made him one of the most influential figures of late-20th and early 21st century American literature.” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)  This important volume gathers work from his first ten collections of poetry, from \u003ci\u003eSome Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, which was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series (1956), to \u003ci\u003eA Wave\u003c\/i\u003e (1984). The 138 poems in this volume include short lyrics, haikus, prose poems, and many of Ashbery’s major long poems, including “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” offering a beautiful distillation of the first thirty years of his remarkable, groundbreaking work.John Ashbery: Selected Poems\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eSome Trees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo Scenes\u003cbr\u003ePopular Songs\u003cbr\u003eThe Instruction Manual\u003cbr\u003eThe Grapevine\u003cbr\u003eA Boy\u003cbr\u003eGlazunoviana\u003cbr\u003eThe Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers\u003cbr\u003eSonnet\u003cbr\u003eThe Young Son\u003cbr\u003eErrors\u003cbr\u003eIllustration\u003cbr\u003eSome Trees\u003cbr\u003eThe Painter\u003cbr\u003eAnd You Know\u003cbr\u003eHe\u003cbr\u003eA Long Novel\u003cbr\u003eThe Pied Piper\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe Livre est sur la table\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Tennis Court Oath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThoughts of a Young Girl\u003cbr\u003e\"How Much Longer Will I Be Able to Inhabit the . . .\"\u003cbr\u003eWhite Roses\u003cbr\u003eOur Youth\u003cbr\u003eAn Additional Poem\u003cbr\u003eFaust\u003cbr\u003eA Last World\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The New Realism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eRivers and Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRivers and Mountains\u003cbr\u003eLast Month\u003cbr\u003eIf the Birds Knew\u003cbr\u003eInto the Dusk-Charged Air\u003cbr\u003eThe Ecclesiast\u003cbr\u003eThe Recent Past\u003cbr\u003eA Blessing in Disguise\u003cbr\u003eClepsydra\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Skaters\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Double Dream of Spring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Task\u003cbr\u003eSpring Day\u003cbr\u003ePlainness in Diversity\u003cbr\u003eSoonest Mended\u003cbr\u003eSummer\u003cbr\u003eIt Was Raining in the Capital\u003cbr\u003eVariations, Calypso and Fugue on a Theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox\u003cbr\u003eSong\u003cbr\u003eDecoy\u003cbr\u003eFor John Clare\u003cbr\u003eFarm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape\u003cbr\u003eParergon\u003cbr\u003eSome Words\u003cbr\u003eThe Bungalows\u003cbr\u003eThe Chateau Hardware\u003cbr\u003eSortes Vergilianae\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThree Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe System\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait In a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat\u003cbr\u003eWorsening Situation\u003cbr\u003eForties Flick\u003cbr\u003eAs You Came from the Holy Land\u003cbr\u003eScheherazade\u003cbr\u003eGrand Galop\u003cbr\u003eHop o' My Thumb\u003cbr\u003eMixed Feelings\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMärchenbilder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOleum Misericordiae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eHouseboat Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStreet Musicians\u003cbr\u003eThe Other Tradition\u003cbr\u003eVariant\u003cbr\u003eWooden Buildings\u003cbr\u003ePyrography\u003cbr\u003eThe Gazing Grain\u003cbr\u003eUnctuous Platitudes\u003cbr\u003eThe Couple  in the Next Room\u003cbr\u003eBusiness Personals\u003cbr\u003eCrazy Weather\u003cbr\u003eOn the Towpath\u003cbr\u003eBird's-Eye View of the Tool and Die Co.\u003cbr\u003eWet Casements\u003cbr\u003eSaying It to Keep It from Happening\u003cbr\u003eDaffy Duck in Hollywood\u003cbr\u003eHouseboat Days\u003cbr\u003eThe Lament upon the Waters\u003cbr\u003eAnd \u003ci\u003eUt Pictura Poesis\u003c\/i\u003e Is Her Name\u003cbr\u003eWhat Is Poetry\u003cbr\u003eAnd Others, Vaguer Presences\u003cbr\u003eThe Wrong Kind of Insurance \u003cbr\u003eFriends\u003cbr\u003eThe Ice-Cream Wars\u003cbr\u003eBlue Sonata\u003cbr\u003eSyringa\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Fantasia on \"The Nut-Brown Maid\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eAs We Know\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Litany\u003cbr\u003eSilhouette\u003cbr\u003eMany Wagons Ago\u003cbr\u003eAs We Know\u003cbr\u003eOtherwise\u003cbr\u003eFlowering Death\u003cbr\u003eHaunted Landscape\u003cbr\u003eMy Erotic Double\u003cbr\u003eTrain Rising out of the Sea\u003cbr\u003eLate Echo\u003cbr\u003eAnd I'd Love You to Be in It\u003cbr\u003eTapestry\u003cbr\u003eA Love Poem\u003cbr\u003eThis Configuration\u003cbr\u003eTheir Day\u003cbr\u003eA Tone Poem\u003cbr\u003eThe Other Cindy\u003cbr\u003eThe Plural of \"Jack-in-the-Box\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eShadow Train\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pursuit of Happiness\u003cbr\u003ePunishing the Myth\u003cbr\u003eParadoxes and Oxymorons\u003cbr\u003eAnother Chain Letter\u003cbr\u003eThe Ivory Tower\u003cbr\u003eAt the Inn\u003cbr\u003eThe Absence of a Noble Presence\u003cbr\u003eQualm\u003cbr\u003eHere Everything Is Stilll Floating\u003cbr\u003eSome Old Tires\u003cbr\u003eSomething Similar\u003cbr\u003eOr in My Throat\u003cbr\u003eUntilted\u003cbr\u003eThe Leasing of September\u003cbr\u003eUnusual Precautions\u003cbr\u003eWe Hesitate\u003cbr\u003eFrontispiece\u003cbr\u003eThe Vegetarians\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eA Wave\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt North Farm\u003cbr\u003eThe Songs We Know Best\u003cbr\u003eLandscape (After Baudelaire)\u003cbr\u003eJust Walking Around\u003cbr\u003eThe Ongoing Story\u003cbr\u003eThank You for Not Cooperating\u003cbr\u003eMore Pleasant Adventures\u003cbr\u003ePurists Will Object\u003cbr\u003e37 Haiku\u003cbr\u003eThe Lonedale Operator\u003cbr\u003eDarlene's Hospital\u003cbr\u003eWhatever It Is, Wherever You Are\u003cbr\u003eA Wave\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e“Contains Ashbery’s greatest work and confirms his position as one of America’s finest poets since Wallace Stevens.” \u003cb\u003e—Edward Guerschi, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewsday\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mr. Ashbery remains one of his generation’s most gifted and eloquent poets . . . He writes persuasively—and movingly—of the poetic process, of the attempts of the artist to wring order out of chaos.” \u003cb\u003e—Michiko Kakutani, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“No other poet is as daring . . . None inhabits such a Versailles of the imagination. This formidable new volume offers the finest of his oeuvre.” \u003cb\u003e—Carolyn Forche, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery (1927 – 2017)\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of more than twenty-five collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award;  \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1985); and \u003ci\u003eSelected Later Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), which was awarded the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize. Ashbery’s honors included a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Foundation in 2011.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302756339941,"sku":"NP9780140585537","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140585537.jpg?v=1767736320","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/selected-poems-isbn-9780140585537","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}