Reader: Ashbery, John

Accession Number - 593

Date:	12/05/84
Length:	56 minutes
Tape Quality:	good
Collection:	Poetry Center
Ethnicity:	white
Language:	English
Use Policy:	available
Content:	From Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror: "Mixed Feelings," "Hop o' My Thumb," and "Scheherazade." From Houseboat Days: "Street Musicians," "The Gazing Grain," "Wet Casements," "Daffy Duck in Hollywood," "Friends," and "Blue Sonata." From A Wave: "The Ongoing Story," "More Pleasant Adventures," and "The Path to the White Moon." A selection of then-unpublished poems: "A Mood of Quiet Beauty," "What God Does Not See, the Immortal's Will," "Becalmed on Strange Waters," "October at the Window," and "Forgotten Song." Some passages from A Wave.