Wakefulness
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Wakefulness

Poems

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eBook - ePub

Wakefulness

Poems

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A collection of poems that recall, in their powerful transformations of language, the moment of clarity that arrives upon waking from a dream One of John Ashbery's most critically acclaimed collections since his iconic works of the mid-1970s, Wakefulness was praised in 1999 for its beauty and alertness. In these pages, the great poet is at once luring the reader into a vivid dream and waking us up with a jolt of recognition. In poems such as "The Village of Sleep, " "Shadows in the Street, " and "Wakefulness, " dreams, sleeplessness, and other transformational and liminal states are revealed to be part of a ceaseless continuity of accelerating changes. Even the most seemingly familiar phrases ("stop me if you've heard this one") are ever in the process of changing their meanings, especially in Ashbery's hands. And distinctive new realities are created constantly by the power of words, in strange and beautiful combinations. With every word and every line, Ashbery questions the real and summons a new reality.

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Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2014
ISBN
9781480459120
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Poesía americana

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Publisher's Note
  6. Wakefulness
  7. Baltimore
  8. Palindrome of Evening
  9. Cousin Sarah's Knitting
  10. Last Night I Dreamed I Was in Bucharest
  11. Added Poignancy
  12. Quarry
  13. Laughing Gravy
  14. From Such Commotion
  15. Moderately
  16. Alive at Every Passage
  17. The Burden of the Park
  18. At the Station
  19. Another Kind of Afternoon
  20. Tangled Star
  21. Deeply Incised
  22. Tropical Sex
  23. The Friend at Midnight
  24. Stung by Something
  25. The Last Romantic
  26. Shadows in the Street
  27. The Earth-Tone Madonna
  28. Dear Sir or Madam
  29. The Laughter of Dead Men
  30. Discordant Data
  31. Bogus Inspections
  32. Floatingly
  33. Tenebrae
  34. Outside My Window the Japanese
  35. Any Other Time
  36. Probably Based on a Dream
  37. The Village of Sleep
  38. In My Head
  39. The Spacious Firmament
  40. Proximity
  41. Going Away Any Time Soon
  42. Like America
  43. New Constructions
  44. Whiteout
  45. A French Stamp
  46. One Man's Poem
  47. The Pathetic Fallacy
  48. From Old Notebooks
  49. Many Colors
  50. Autumn in the Long Avenue
  51. Snow
  52. Within the Hour
  53. The Dong with the Luminous Nose
  54. Come On, Dear
  55. Gentle Reader
  56. Homecoming
  57. About the Author
  58. Copyright