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  <title><![CDATA[A Wave: Poems]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, &lt;i&gt;A Wave&lt;/i&gt; is widely considered one of Ashbery's finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here--particularly the long title-poem--find the poet applying his uniquely lyric, meditative, and often hilarious sensibility to the mysterious and incessant curves and crests of love, art, thought, experience, and selfhood.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Ashbery]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is especially Ashbery.(/?)<br/><br/>to say, especially good for him.  It has that real, gritty, chewy, warm character, almost leaving a taste in your mouth.<br/><br/>Some interesting things in this book, slightly more out of character, are an amazing translation of a Baudelaire poem (r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28524041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first ten poems in here are sort of awful, and then randomly something changes and everything becomes beautiful and potent.  The prose-poems particularly.  I also found this a lot more affecting than the only other Ashbery I've read, &quot;Girls on the Run&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my friend nico said &quot;ready this&quot;  and you know i owe him a thank you!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Look like a goo dbook to borrow!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[favorite ashbery]]></body>
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