John Ashbery. 
 
New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. Advance review copy with the publisher's slip laid in. Unclipped jacket is a little edge worn. Very good.
 
Spiritual awakening and reflection on how the poet's work mirrors the human condition; a love affair cast in cosmic tones; autobiography and coda as a re-reading of the two previous poems ---Three (prose) Poems meant to be read sequentially from America's most experimental and rewarding poet.
 
"It's just beginning. Now it's started to work again. The visitation. was it more or less over. No, it had not yet begun, except as a preparatory dream which seemed to have the rough texture of life, but which dwindled into starshine like all the unwanted memories."