Houseboat Days

Is poetry the act of putting something together, or the art of taking something apart? Houseboat Days , one of John Ashbery’s most celebrated collections, offers its own answer Remarkable for its introspection and for the response it elicited when it was first published in 1977, Houseboat Days is Ashbery’s much-discussed follow-up to his 1975 masterpiece Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror , and remains one of his most studied books to date.   Houseboat Days begins with the moving, unforgettab