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Released: 2008-02-05 Rating: More Details: A Worldly Country: New Poems A Worldly Country: New Poems @Amazon A Worldly Country: New Poems @aStore |
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Thrill of a Romance
It's different when you have hiccups.
Everything is—so many glad hands competing
for your attention, a scarf, a puff of soot,
or just a blast of silence from a radio.
What is it? That's for you to learn
to your dismay when, at the end of a long queue
in the cafeteria, tray in hand, they tell you the gate closed down
after the Second World War. Syracuse was declared capital
of a nation in malaise, but the directorate
had other, hidden goals. To proclaim logic
a casualty of truth was one.
Everyone's solitude (and resulting promiscuity)
perfumed the byways of villages we had thought civilized.
I saw you waiting for a streetcar and pressed forward.
Alas, you were only a child in armor. Now when ribald toasts
sail round a table too fair laid out, why the consequences
are only dust, disease and old age. Pleasant memories
are just that. So I channel whatever
into my contingency, a vein of mercury
that keeps breaking out, higher up, more on time
every time. Dirndls spotted with obsolete flowers,
worn in the city again, promote open discussion.
Ashbery Does It Again ![]()
As a longtime admirer of John Ashbery's poetry, I am happy to say that in his latest collection, A Worldly Country, written in his seventies, he still has his poetry chops. The poems are characterized by the skillful use of language, striking connections, and surprising shifts in tone that are present in his earlier work. There may be more of a melancholy undertone in these poems, but maybe not. Ashbery continues to delight.
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems |
Where Shall I Wander : New Poems |
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 |
Selected Poems (Poets, Penguin) |
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems (Poets, Penguin) |
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