Shipping at the Earliest

Introducing The Woodberry Sessions, a series of archival LPs released in collaboration with Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room. In May of 1976, shortly after being awarded the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror-a triple crown which, to this day, only he has won-John Ashbery returned to his alma mater, Harvard University, to read new and selected poems. John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre, 1976 is forty-seven minutes of poetry from Houseboat Days, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, and The Double Dream of Spring. The record includes a 16-page liner notes booklet with original essays by Douglas Crase, Dara Barrois/Dixon, and John Yau, along with archival material such as photographs of Ashbery's annotated manuscripts and original artwork by R. B. Kitaj, Larry Rivers, and Ashbery himself.

Tracklist:

Side A:

1. Street Musicians
2. Pyrography
3. Bird's-Eye View of the Tool and Die Co
4. Collective Dawns
5. the Couple in the Next Room
6. Variant
7. Daffy Duck in Hollywood

Side B:

8. Melodic Trains
9. Wet Casements
10. the Wrong Kind of Insurance
11. Business Personals
12. Friends
13. the Lament Upon the Waters
14. Poem in Three Parts
15. Oleum Misericordiae
16. Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape