Most Popular Books by John Ashbery

The Tosti sisters of Paris, France, have come to the small, upstate New York village of Kelton for a change of pace. But when the pair enters the lives of Alice, an unfulfilled cellist, her brother Marshall, and Fabia and Victor, another sister and brother who are as bumbling as they are overindulged, it is certain that Kelton will never again be the same unassuming place.

Poems "originally published in Adventures in Poetry magazine, 1970."

Robert Mapplethorpe''s reputation rests largely on a body of black and white sexual imagery, yet he was one of the most elegant still-life photographers. His flower studies, to which he sometimes referred to as his ''New York flowers'' are slightly poisonous and very sexual. This will be the most decorative of all the Mapplethorpe books.