Girls on the Run.
"The thread ended up on the floor, where threads go. It became a permanent thing, like silver - every time you polish it, a little goes away": First Edition of John Ashbery's Girls on the Run; signed and dated by him
Girls on the Run.
ASHBERY, John.
Item Number: 110534
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
First edition of Ashbery’s long poem inspired by the works of Chicago-based outsider artist and street waste collector Henry Darger. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by the poet on the title page in the year of publication, “John Ashbery April 21, 1999.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
David Kirby of The New York Times described Girls on the Run as "a tank of literary laughing gas that exhilarates and confounds in roughly equal measure... the excitement stays just below the level of video-arcade intensity, thanks to the anesthesizing influence of a narrator who is both wide-eyed and disembodied ...If Andy Warhol and T. S. Eliot had played with Barbies together, the result might have been something like the adventures of Dimples, Shuffle, Tidbit and the rest of the Vivians: theirs is a world of the eternal present, a place where the ordinary is nifty and vice versa, and any possibility of a tight ending scampers away into a candy-colored sunset."
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