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Houseboat Days

4.2/5 ( ratings)

This reissue of a book of thirty-nine poems, first collected in 1977, reminds us of Ashbery's astonishing explorations 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.

Language: English

Pages: 87

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: May 06, 1999

ISBN: 0374525900

ISBN 13: 9780374525903

Houseboat Days

4.2/5 ( ratings)

This reissue of a book of thirty-nine poems, first collected in 1977, reminds us of Ashbery's astonishing explorations 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.

Language: English

Pages: 87

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: May 06, 1999

ISBN: 0374525900

ISBN 13: 9780374525903

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