Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!mf From: mf@cornell.UUCP (mf) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: John Ashbery Message-ID: <415@cornell.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 00:40:41 EST Article-I.D.: cornell.415 Posted: Sun Dec 9 00:40:41 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 03:29:20 EST Reply-To: (Uucp) cornell!mf (ARPA) mf@cornell (Bitnet) MF AT CRNLCS Organization: Cornell U Lines: 12 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.