01188nam a22002297i 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802000150007603500320009104000310012308200150015410000190016924500420018826400500023030000130028033600260029333700280031933800270034752005240037465000400089865000200093820261016202619.0261016s1998    xx ||||| |||||||| p|eng d  a9780374285982  a0374285985  a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780374285982  aKOHALIBbengerdacKOHALIB04a811.542231 aAshbery, John.10aWakefulness :bpoems /cJohn Ashbery. 1aNew York :bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,c1998.  a79 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aProgressive awakenings occur in all these verses. Each sense is engaged, and there is a search for epiphanies of the spirit, too. We are in history but also in the present - in buildings, churches, homes, trains, and cars; then back in the open pursuing the course to Baltimore and Bucharest, to the zoo and the park, to the past and the future. The digressions are wily, heartbreaking, or vertiginous. The clock ticks on, yet the tactics of survival and enhancement set forth in these poems invoke an ideal permanence. 4aPoetry (Poetic Works by One Author) 4aAmerican Poetry