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.