New Releases by John Ashbery

Two scenes -- Popular songs -- Eclogue -- The Instruction Manual -- The Grapevine -- A Boy -- Glazunoviana -- The Hero -- Poem -- Album Leaf -- The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers -- Pantoum -- Grand Abacus -- The Mythological Poet -- Sonnet -- Chaos -- The Orioles -- The Young Son -- The Thinnest Shadow -- Canzone -- Errors -- Illustration -- Some Trees -- Hotel Daupin -- The Painter -- And You Know -- He -- Meditations of a Parrot -- A Long Novel -- The Way They Took -- Sonnet --The Pied Piper -- Answering a Question in the Mountains -- A Pastoral -- Le livre est sur la table.

Letters among and a group composition by members of the New York school of art. Includes a typescript of a play, "The Coronation Murder Mystery by John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Frank O''Hara (for James Schuyler)"; and letters between Frank O''Hara and Joe LeSueur, as well as to Hurley.

Letters contain humorous literary references, several poems, a chapter of a murder mystery, a few drawings, references to mutual friends, and various events.