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Ave Maria Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) First Dances Fantasy John Ashbery The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers Some Trees The Painter “They Dream Only of America” A Last World These Lacustrine Cities from The Skaters Soonest Mended Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape Definition of Blue The One Thing That Can Save America City Afternoon Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror Street Musicians Pyrography Wet Casements Daffy Duck in Hollywood As We Know At North Farm A Driftwood Altar The History of My Life Kenneth Koch Fresh Air You Were Wearing Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams The Circus Fate The Simplicity of the Unknown Past To Marina Days and Nights 1. The Invention of Poetry 2. The Stones of Time vi 48 49 50 51 57 59 60 62 63 66 67 73 75 77 78 80 81 94 95 97 98 101 102 103 105 111 117 118 119 122 125 126 136 138 THE NEW YORK POETS
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3. The Secret 4. Out and In 5. Days and Nights One Train May Hide Another A Time Zone James Schuyler February May 24th or so Buried at Springs Empathy and New Year An East Window on Elizabeth Street A Gray Thought To Frank O’Hara Shimmer October The Bluet Hymn to Life June 30, 1974 Korean Mums Wystan Auden Dining Out With Doug and Frank The Payne Whitney Poems Trip We Walk Arches Linen Heather and Calendulas Back Blizzard February 13, 1975 Sleep Pastime What The Snowdrop En Route to Southampton Fauré’s Second Piano Quartet Index of First Lines Index of Titles CONTENTS vii 140 142 144 147 149 161 163 164 166 169 170 171 173 174 175 176 185 188 190 192 199 199 200 200 201 201 202 202 203 203 204 205 206 207 209 212

Ave Maria

Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)

First Dances

Fantasy

John Ashbery

The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers

Some Trees

The Painter

“They Dream Only of America”

A Last World

These Lacustrine Cities from The Skaters

Soonest Mended

Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape

Definition of Blue

The One Thing That Can Save America

City Afternoon

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Street Musicians

Pyrography

Wet Casements

Daffy Duck in Hollywood

As We Know

At North Farm

A Driftwood Altar

The History of My Life

Kenneth Koch

Fresh Air

You Were Wearing

Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams

The Circus

Fate

The Simplicity of the Unknown Past

To Marina

Days and Nights

1. The Invention of Poetry

2. The Stones of Time vi

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THE NEW YORK POETS

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