Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

Winner Of The 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize. His Long-awaited Volume, A New Selection Of His Later Poems, Spans Ten Major Collections By One Of America's Most Visionary And Influential Poets. Chosen By The Author Himself, The Poems In Notes From The Air Represent John Ashbery's Best Work From The Past Two Decades, From The Critically Acclaimed April Galleons And Flow Chart To The 2005 National Book Award Finalist Where Shall I Wander. While Ashbery Has Long Been Considered A Powerful Force In Twentieth-century Culture, Notes From The Air Demonstrates Clearly How Important And Relevant His Writing Continues To Be, Well Into The Twenty-first Century. Many Of The Books From Which These Poems Are Drawn Are Regularly Taught In University Classrooms Across The Country, And Critics And Scholars Vigorously Debate His Newest Works As Well As His Classics. He Has Already Published Four Major Books Since The Turn Of The New Millennium, And, Although 2007 Marks His Eightieth Birthday, This Legendary Literary Figure Continues To Write Fresh, New, And Vibrant Poetry That Remains As Stimulating, Provocative, And Controversial As Ever. Notes From The Air Reveals, For The First Time In One Volume, The Remarkable Evolution Of Ashbery's Poetry From The Mid-1980s Into The New Century, And Offers An Irresistible Sampling Of Some Of The Finest Work By This National Treasure.--publisher's Description. From April Galleons (1987) Vetiver -- Riddle Me -- Mood Of Quiet Beauty -- Finnish Rhapsody -- Alone In The Lumber Business -- Vaucanson -- Someone You Have Seen Before -- Ostensibly -- Becalmed On Strange Waters -- Big Cloud -- Some Money -- Wet Are The Boards -- Offshore Breeze -- Ice Storm -- April Galleons -- From Flow Chart (1991) Section V From Hotel Lautreamont (1992) Light Turnouts -- Autumn Telegram -- Notes From The Air -- Still Life With Stranger -- Hotel Lautreamont -- On The Empress's Mind -- Phantom Agents -- From Estuaries, From Casinos -- Autumn On The Thruway -- Little Black Dress -- Avant De Quitter Ces Lieux -- In Another Time -- Le Mensonge De Nina Petrovna -- Korean Soap Opera -- Driftwood Altar -- Youth's Magic Horn -- Seasonal -- Kamarinskaya -- Elephant Visitors -- Retablo -- Quartet -- Untitled -- Just Wednesday -- In My Way/on My Way -- No Good At Names -- In Vain, Therefore -- Hole In Your Sock -- How To Continue -- From And The Stars Were Shining (1994) Token Resistance -- Mandrill On The Turnpike -- About To Move -- Ghost Riders Of The Moon -- Love Scenes -- Well, Yes, Actually -- Myrtle -- Mutt And Jeff -- Coventry -- And The Stars Were Shining -- From Can You Hear, Bird (1995) Poem Of Unrest -- Waking Dream -- At First I Thought I Wouldn't Say Anything About It -- By An Earthquake -- By Guess And By Gosh -- Can You Hear, Bird -- Cantilever -- Chapter Ii, Book 35 -- Dangerous Moonlight -- Debit Night -- Dull Mauve -- My Philosophy Of Life -- No Longer Very Clear -- Operators Are Standing By -- Plain As Day -- Sleepers Awake -- Faint Of Heart -- Green Mummies -- Military Base -- Problem Of Anxiety -- Today's Academicians -- From Tuesday Evening -- Yes, Dr. Grenzmer. How May I Be Of Assistance To You? What! You Say The Patient Escaped? -- You Would Have Thought -- From Wakefulness (1998) Wakefulness -- Baltimore -- Cousin Sarah's Knitting -- Last Night I Dreamed I Was In Bucharest -- Added Poignancy -- Laughing Gravy -- From Such Commotion -- Alive At Every Passage -- Burden Of The Park -- Dear Sir Or Madam -- Discordant Data -- Outside My Window The Japanese -- Probably Based On A Dream -- Proximity -- Like America -- Snow -- Dong With The Luminous Nose -- Come On, Dear -- Homecoming -- From Girls On The Run (1999) Sections I, Ii, Iii, Viii, Ix, Xxi -- From Your Name Here (2000) This Room -- If You Said You Would Come With Me -- Linnet -- Bobinski Brothers -- Merrily We Live -- Caravaggio And His Followers -- Industrial Collage -- History Of My Life -- Memories Of Imperialism -- Heartache -- Redeemed Area -- They Don't Just Go Away, Either -- Sonatine Melancolique -- Stanzas Before Time -- Suit -- Crossroads In The Past -- How Dangerous -- Lemurs And Pharisees -- Underwriters -- Vendanges -- Has To Be Somewhere -- Strange Cinema -- Fade In -- Pastilles For The Voyage -- Your Name Here -- From Chinese Whispers (2002) Nice Presentation -- Disagreeable Glimpses -- Theme Park Days -- From The Dairy Of A Mole -- Mordred -- Lightning Conductor -- I Asked Mr. Dithers Whether It Was Time Yet He Said No To Wait -- Chinese Whispers -- In The Time Of Pussy Willows -- Little Sick Poem -- Local Legend -- Portrait With A Goat -- As Umbrellas Follow Rain -- Oh Evenings -- Runway -- Her Cardboard Lover -- Haves -- Like Air, Almost -- Blessed Way Out -- Business Of Falling Asleep (2) -- Sir Gammer Vans -- From Where Shall I Wander (2001) Ignorance Of The Law Is No Excuse -- Days Of Reckoning -- Coma Berenices -- New Higher -- Interesting People Of Newfoundland -- Retro -- Annuals And Perennials -- Heavy Home -- Template -- Snow-stained Petals Aren't Pretty Any More -- Sonnet: More Of Same -- Love Interest -- Composition -- Where Shall I Wander. John Ashbery. Includes Index Of Titles And First Lines.