num_pages: 79
description: Early in the title work of Wakefulness , Ashbery "Little by little the idea of the true way returned to me." Progressive awakenings occur in all of these poems. As we read, each of our senses is engaged, and we come to detect a search for spiritual revelations--in buildings, churches, homes, trains, and cars. Then suddenly we find ourselves back in the open, pursuing the course to Baltimore and Bucharest, to the zoo and the park, to the past and future. As ever, Ashbery's wakeful digressions are wily, comic, heartbreaking, and vertiginous.
language: English
title: Wakefulness
titlecomplete: Wakefulness
genres: Poetry, 20th Century
ratings_count: 131
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux