Where Shall I Wander: New Poems

by John Ashbery

2020-07-11 00:46:40

A masterful collection from “the grand old man of American poetry” (New York Times)You meant more than life to me. I lived throughyou not knowing, not knowing I was living.I learned that you called for me. I came to whereyou were living, ... Read more

A masterful collection from “the grand old man of American poetry” (New York Times)

You meant more than life to me. I lived through

you not knowing, not knowing I was living.

I learned that you called for me. I came to where

you were living, up a stair. There was no one there.

No one to appreciate me. The legality of it

upset a chair. Many times to celebrate

we were called together and where

we had been there was nothing there,

nothing that is anywhere. We passed obliquely,

leaving no stare. When the sun was done muttering,

in an optimistic way, it was time to leave that there.

 

--from “The New Higher”

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Book Details

File size6.34x9.06x0.53inches
Print pages96
PublisherEcco Press
Publication date March 1, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780060765293
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – Sept 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential poet of his time. Ashbery published more than 20 volumes of poetr...

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