
The Tennis Court Oath
Ashbery, John100 USD
Date
1962
Category
Poetry
Description
The 35th anniversary edition of John Ashbery's second book, The Tennis Court Oath.
Excerpt
What had you been thinking about
the face studiously bloodied
heaven blotted region
I go on loving you like water but
there is a terrible breath in the way all of this
You were not elected president, yet won the race
All the way through fog and drizzle
When you read it was sincere the coasts
stammered with unintentional villages the
horse strains fatigued I guess . . . the calls . . .
I worry