Selected Poems

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 348. Black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Much more elusive than the U.S. edition published by Viking a year earlier.

Signed by Author to title page.

Drawing on ten previously published collections, John Ashbery has made his own choice of 138 poems, including short lyrics, haiku, prose poems, a selection of the sixteen-line poems of Shadow Train (1981), and many of his major long poems, notably Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975). "Lyrical and discursive, ribald and reflective, these 138 poems chosen by the poet are among the most original, inventive, and challenging in American writing today." –Library Journal