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John Ashbery - The tennis court oath: poems

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John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their clashing interplay a structure of dazzling brilliance and strong emotional impact. From this preoccupation arises a poetry that passes beyond conventional limits into a highly individual realm of effectiveness, one that may be roughly likened to the visual world of Surrealist painting. Some will find Mr. Ashberys work difficult, even forbidding; but those who are sensitive to new directions in ideas and the arts will discover here much to quicken and delight them.A 35th anniversary edition of classic work from a celebrated American poet who has received the Pulitzer Prize, the national Book Award, and the national Book Critics Circle Award. John Ashberys second book, The Tennis Court Oaths, first published by Wesleyan in 1962, remains a touchstone of contemporary avant-garde poetry.

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title The Tennis Court Oath A Book of Poems author Ashbery - photo 1

title:The Tennis Court Oath; : A Book of Poems
author:Ashbery, John.
publisher:Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin:0819510130
print isbn13:9780819510136
ebook isbn13:9780585371122
language:English
subjectAmerican poetry.
publication date:1962
lcc:PS3501.S475T4 1962eb
ddc:811.54
subject:American poetry.
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The Tennis Court Oath
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The Tennis Court Oath
A Book of
Poems by
John Ashbery
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Wesleyan University Press
Published by University Press of New England,
Hanover, NH 03755
Copyright 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 by John Ashbery
All rights reserved
Some of these poems have previously appeared in Big Table, The Floating Bear, The Hasty Papers, Locus Solus, Partisan Review, Poetry Magazine, and Yugen; and in the author's earlier books, Turandot and Other Poems and The Poems.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 6210569
ISBN 0819510130
First printing, 1962
Printed in Canada 10 9 8 7
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to Pierre Martory
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Contents
The Tennis Court Oath
11
"They Dream Only of America"
13
Thoughts of a Young Girl
14
America
15
Two Sonnets
20
To Redout
21
Night
22
"How Much Longer Will I Be Able to Inhabit the Divine Sepulcher..."
25
Rain
28
A White Paper
32
Leaving the Atocha Station
33
White Roses
35
The Suspended Life
36
A Life Drama
39
Our Youth
41
The Ticket
43
An Additional Poem
44
Measles
45
Faust
47

Page 7
The Lozenges
49
The Ascetic Sensualists
51
Landscape
55
A Last World
56
The New Realism
59
The Unknown Travelers
63
Europe
64
To the Same Degree
86
The Passive Preacher
88
The Shower
90
Idaho
91

Page 11
THE TENNIS COURT OATH
What had you been thinking about
the face studiously bloodied
heaven blotted region
I go on loving you like water but
there is a terrible breath in the way all of this
You were not elected president, yet won the race
All the way through fog and drizzle
When you read it was sincere the coasts
stammered with unintentional villages the
horse strains fatigued I guess... the calls...
I worry
the water beetle head
why of course reflecting all
then you redid you were breathing
I thought going down to mail this
of the kettle you jabbered as easily in the yard
you come through but
are incomparable the lovely tent
mystery you don't want surrounded the real
you dance
in the spring there was clouds
The mulatress approached in the hallthe
lettering easily visible along the edge of the Times
in a moment the bell would ring but there was time
for the carnation laughed here are a couple of "other"
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