Selected Poems

First edition thus. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 348, [8, ads]. Green printed wraps.

Signed and dated 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