A WORLDLY COUNTRY New Poems
by John Ashbery
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0061173835
- ISBN 13
- 9780061173837
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Synopsis
Thrill of a Romance It's different when you have hiccups. Everything is—so many glad hands competing for your attention, a scarf, a puff of soot, or just a blast of silence from a radio. What is it? That's for you to learn to your dismay when, at the end of a long queue in the cafeteria, tray in hand, they tell you the gate closed down after the Second World War. Syracuse was declared capital of a nation in malaise, but the directorate had other, hidden goals. To proclaim logic a casualty of truth was one. Everyone's solitude (and resulting promiscuity) perfumed the byways of villages we had thought civilized. I saw you waiting for a streetcar and pressed forward. Alas, you were only a child in armor. Now when ribald toasts sail round a table too fair laid out, why the consequences are only dust, disease and old age. Pleasant memories are just that. So I channel whatever into my contingency, a vein of mercury that keeps breaking out, higher up, more on time every time. Dirndls spotted with obsolete flowers, worn in the city again, promote open discussion.
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- Bookseller
- Rare Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 122331
- Title
- A WORLDLY COUNTRY New Poems
- Author
- John Ashbery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0061173835
- ISBN 13
- 9780061173837
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 0061173835
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