Houseboat days : poems / by John Ashbery
by Ashbery, John 1927-2017
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0140422021
- ISBN 13
- 9780140422023
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Penguin Books Ltd, 1979. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; vi, 88 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Originally published: New York : Viking Press ; Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1977. Contents; Street Musicians -- The Other Tradition -- Variant -- Collective Dawns -- Wooden Buildings -- Pyrography -- The Gazing Grain -- Unctuous Platitudes -- The Couple in the Next Room -- The Explanation -- Loving Mad Tom -- Business Personals -- Crazy Weather -- On the Towpath -- Melodic Trains -- Birds-Eye View of the Tool and Die Co. -- Wet Casements -- Saying It to Keep It from Happening -- Daffy Duck in Hollywood -- All Kinds of Caresses -- Lost and Found and Lost Again -- Two Deaths -- Houseboat Days -- Whether It Exists -- The Lament upon the Waters -- Drame Bourgeois -- And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name -- What Is Poetry -- And Others, Vaguer Presences -- The Wrong Kind of Insurance -- The Serious Doll -- Friends -- The Thief of Poetry -- The Ice-Cream Wars -- Valentine -- Blue Sonata -- Spring Light -- Syringa -- Fantasia on ""The Nut-Brown Maid."" Subjects; 1900-1999. American poetry 20th century. American poetry. English Poetry American authors.
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- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
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- Title
- Houseboat days : poems / by John Ashbery
- Author
- Ashbery, John 1927-2017
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Advance Review Copy
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140422021
- ISBN 13
- 9780140422023
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
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