ALSO BY JOHN ASHBERY
PD ETRY Your Name Here As Umbrellas Follow Rain Turandot and Other Poems Chinese Whispers Some Trees Where Shall I Wander The Tennis Court Oath A Wordly Country Rivers and Mountains Notes from the Air: The Double Dream of Spring Selected Later Poems Three Poems Collected Poems, 1956-1287 The Vermont Notebook Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror FICTI ON Houseboat Days A Nest 0/Ninnies As We Know (with James Schuyler) Shadow Train
A Wave PLAYS Selected Poems Three Vlays April Galleons
Flow Chart CRITICISM
Hotel LautreWiont AND E3 SAYS And the Stars Were Shining Reported Sightings: Can You Hear, Bird Art Chronicles, 1957-1987 Wake/ulness Other Traditions The Mooring 0/Starting Out: (The Charles Eliot The First Five Booh of Poetry Norton Lectures) Girls on the Run Selected Prose ALC DVE • 1
ATTABLED WITH THE SPINNING YEARS • 2
B 'S MYSTERIOUS GREETING • 4
BOULEVARD EXELMANS IN THE RAIN • 5
BOUNDARY ISSUES • 6
BREATHLIKE • B
THE BURNING CANDLE • 9
CHAIR RENTAL • ID
CIRCA • 11
DECEMBRISTS • 13
DEEP SURPRISE • 15
D E FA U LT M O D E • 1 7
EL DO RAD O • 1 9
EPISODE • 21
EPISODE • 2 3
EXPERIMENT PERILOUS • 24
FLOATING AWAY • 26
FOR FUCK'S SAKE • 28
THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE . 29
FX • 3 O
GIRAFFE HEADQUARTERS • 32 A GOOSE WALKS ALONG A PATH • 33
THE GRACIOUS SILHOUETTE OF ... WHAT? • 34
HALF-RIDERS • 35
HAPPY AS THE SUN • 36
HE WHO LOVES AND RUNS AWAY • 37
I DIDN'T KNDW WHAT TIME IT WAS • 39
IDEA OF STEVE • 41
IN A WONDERFUL PLACE • 42
IN ONE AFTERNOON • 43
IS IT JUST ME OR • 44
JUST HOW CLOUDY EVERYTHING GETS • 46
THE LATER ME • 4B
LEAVE THE HAND IN • 49
LIVING IN A BIG WAY • 5D
THE LOGISTICS • 51
LONGING OF THE ACCORDS • 53
LOST SONNET • 54
MAGNETIC FLOWERS • 55
MORE OF WH AT HAPPENED • 57
N O EXTRAS -59
NO REASON NOT TO . 6Q
NO REST FOR THE WEARY • SI
NOT MY FAVORITE SHIRT • 63
O KNAVE • 64
OCCURRENCE • 65
THE OLD JURISDICTION • 66 PARTIAL CLEARING . 67
A PENITENCE • 69
PE R N I LLA . 7O
PERPLEXING WAYS • 72
THE PERSON OF WHOM YOU SPEAK • 73
PLANISPHERE • 75
THE PLYWOOD YEARS • 77
POEM • 7 9
PRODUCT PLACEMENT . BO
PROGRAMMER • SI
RAGTIME COWBOY JOE • B2
REG O PARK • B3
RIVER DFTHE CANOEFISH • S5
THE SALVE MERCHANT • B6
SEMI-DETACHED • BB
THE SEVENTH CHIHUAHUA • B9
SLEEPING LY • 9 •
SOME HAD LUNCH • 92
SDME SILLY THING • 93
SOMETHING IT WASN'T • 95
SONGS WITHOUT WORDS < 96
SONS OF THE DESERT • 9B
SPOOKS RUN WILD -99
STICKER SHOCK • 1DD
STREET DUST • 1D2
STRESS RELATED • IQ4 STRUCTURES IN SAND • 1D5
THE STUMMING • 1D7
SUMMER READING • 1 D B
SURPRISING ANNOUNCEMENT • 1139
TE S S E RA • 111
THEN THERE WAS THE OCCASIONAL ABASEMENT • 112
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED • 113
THIS INCREDIBLE TAPESTRY • 115
THIS LISTENER • 117
TOUS LES REGRETZ • 119
THE TOWER OF LONDON • 1Z1
TRESPASSING -123
U M • 12 5
UNCHISELED, • 126
UPSTATE DANCERS . 1Z7
U PTI C K • 1 2 B
VARIATION IN THE KEY OF C • 1Z9
THE VIRGIN KING • 13D
VO I C E-OVE R • 13 1
THE WINEMAKERS • 133
WORKING OVERTIME • 136
WORLD'S LARGEST GLASS OF WATER • 137
W U L F • 13 9
YOU HAVEN'T RECEIVED THE LETTERS YET? • 14O
ZERO PERCENTAGE • 141
ZYM U R G Y • 142