Houseboat days : poems / by John Ashbery

New York : Penguin, 1977. 1st edition. Softcover. Good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Back cover torn. Inside remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; vi, 88 pages ; 21 cm. Contents; Street Musicians -- The Other Tradition -- Variant -- Collective Dawns -- Wooden Buildings -- Pyrography -- The Gazing Grain -- Unctuous Platitudes -- The Couple in the Next Room -- The Explanation -- Loving Mad Tom -- Business Personals -- Crazy Weather -- On the Towpath -- Melodic Trains -- Birds-Eye View of the Tool and Die Co. -- Wet Casements -- Saying It to Keep It from Happening -- Daffy Duck in Hollywood -- All Kinds of Caresses -- Lost and Found and Lost Again -- Two Deaths -- Houseboat Days -- Whether It Exists -- The Lament upon the Waters -- Drame Bourgeois -- And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name -- What Is Poetry -- And Others, Vaguer Presences -- The Wrong Kind of Insurance -- The Serious Doll -- Friends -- The Thief of Poetry -- The Ice-Cream Wars -- Valentine -- Blue Sonata -- Spring Light -- Syringa -- Fantasia on ""The Nut-Brown Maid."" Subjects; 1900-1999. American poetry 20th century. American poetry. English Poetry American authors. American poetry 20th century. Poetry as Topic. Poetry. Poetry in English American writers, 1945 Texts.