Description
In QUICK QUESTION John Ashbery extends an invitation to readers to accompany him into the extraordinary worlds of the everyday, experienced through the box of tricks that is language. He revels in twist and transformation, the constant mutability of words and things: ‘Whatever stops playing is the enemy of the incomplete’. He can stop us in our tracks with the accuracy of his perception: ‘Somewhere in America someone is trying to figure out / how to pay for this’. Aware of the paradoxes of his own writing, he teases us with questions: ‘Is it all doggerel and folderol?’ ‘Would I lie to you?’ Either way, his invitation is irresistible: come in, see what happens.
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Over the Moon 
A Quarter of an Hour 
Spiritlands 
Comic Poems 
Selected Poetry 
Flood