Inscribed by Ashbery on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), bumped and with a closed tear at the top edge. Quarter red cloth with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Ashbery's collection immediately following his Pulitzer Prize-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Seller Inventory # 5521

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Houseboat Days

Publisher: Penguin, New York

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

This reissue of a book of thirty-nine poems, first collected in 1977, reminds us of Ashbery's astonishing explorations (to use Donald Barthelme's words) of places where no one has ever been. "Wet Casements," "Syringa," "Loving Mad Tom," and the long "Fantasia on 'The Nut-Brown Maid,'" which concludes the book, are among the riches in a collection of dazzling eloquence and power.

About the Author:

John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927 and educated at Harvard and Columbia. 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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