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Bookmark or Share- John Ashbery - WikipediaJohn Lawrence Ashbery [1] (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. [2] Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." [3] .
- John Ashbery 101 by Benjamin Voigt | Poetry FoundationJohn Ashbery 101. Experiencing the idiosyncratic playfulness of one of America’s great poets. Illustration by Sophie Herxheimer. “To create a work of art that the critic cannot even begin to talk about ought to be the artist’s chief concern,” John Ashbery once wrote in a review for ARTnews. Although famously elusive, Ashbery’s own ...
- John Ashbery Is Dead at 90; a Poetic Voice Often Echoed, Never MatchedJohn Ashbery, a poet whose teasing, delicate, soulful lines made him one of the most influential figures of late-20th and early-21st-century American literature, died on Sunday at his home in...
- John Ashbery | Poetry FoundationJohn Ashbery was recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century American poets. He won nearly every major American award for poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Griffin International…
- About John Ashbery | Academy of American Poets1927 –. 2017. Read poems by this poet. John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, on July 28, 1927. Ashbery was the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Breezeway (Ecco, 2015); Quick Question (Ecco, 2012); Planisphere (HarperCollins, 2009); A Worldly Country (Ecco, 2007); Where Shall I Wander (HarperCollins, 2005); Chinese ...
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