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Poems deal with transience, memory, manners, music, art, love, reverence, time, dreams, mortality, and the past
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John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927 and educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities. He is Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College and lives in New York City and Hudson, New York.
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But it is shrouded, veiled: we must have made some ghastly error.
You mop your forehead with a rose, recommending its thorns.
Must we thrust ever onward, into perversity?
Only night knows for sure; the secret is safe with her.
You mop your forehead with a rose, recommending its thorns.
Research has shown that ballads were produced by all of society;
Only night knows for sure. The secret is safe with her:
the people, then, knew what they wanted and how to get it.
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0679752765
- ISBN 13 9780679752769
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages157
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