A worldly country : new poems / John Ashbery.

Author/creator Ashbery, John
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Ecco, ©2007.
Description76 pages ; 24 cm

Contents A worldly country -- To be affronted -- Streakiness -- Feverfew -- Opposition to a memorial -- For now -- Image problem -- Litanies -- Like a photograph -- A kind of chill -- One evening, a train -- Mottled Tuesday -- Old-style plentiful -- Well-scrubbed interior -- Cliffhanger -- The ecstasy -- Filigrane -- Ukase -- Casuistry -- Andante favori -- The handshake, the cough, the kiss -- Yes, "Señor" Fluffy -- The Inchcape Rock -- Lacrimae rerun -- A perfect hat -- So, yes -- Of the "East" River's charm -- La bonne chanson -- Feast or famine -- Imperfect sympathies -- The Black Prince -- Forwarded -- They are still rather lovely -- Thrill of a romance -- A litmus tale -- The binomial theorem -- Hungry again -- Promenade -- The recipe -- A small table in the street -- It, or something -- One of his nature poems -- And other stories -- The gallant needful -- America the lovely -- Anticipated stranger -- Phantoum -- The loneliness -- On seeing an old copy of Vogue on a chair -- A November -- Sleeper wedding -- Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees -- Are you ticklish? -- Asides on the theorbo -- Autumn tea leaves -- Objection sustained -- So long, Santa -- Singalong.
General notePoems.
LCCN 2006050279
ISBN0061173835
ISBN9780061173837