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2012: John Ashbery

Recorded At: Poets House Recorded On: Thursday, July 12, 2012

Legendary American poet John Ashbery reads from Planisphere and Quick Question as part of the 2012 Poets House Showcase.
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John Ashbery

Jul 12, 2012 | 7:00 pm

Poets House presents this legendary American poet reading from his body of work including his most recent book of poems Planisphere.

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thing you didn't know
you took in, human
and not, all of it
charged and reactant
which accounts for the trembling
in your hands as now
you discern the
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Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.

Robert Frost
Bantam Books

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