[net.poems] John Ashbery

mf@cornell.UUCP (mf) (12/09/84)

John Ashbery (b. 1927) educated at Deerfield and Ha'va'd, was art critic for
the Paris edition of New York Herald Tribune.  4 principal collections of
poems.

		Thoughts of a Young Girl (excerpt)

	It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter
	From the tower, and to show I'm not mad:
	I only slipped on the cake of soap of the air
	And drowned in the bathtub of the world.
	You were too good to cry much over me.
	And now I let you go.  Signed, the Dwarf.