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John Ashbery (b. 1927)

LINKS

http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/ashbery/

This link connects you to The Electronic Poetry Center of the State University of New York, Buffalo. Here you will find an exhibit on John Ashbery: online primary texts, criticism, bibliographic information, and external links.

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=242

This link connects you to the Academy of American Poets. Here you will find an exhibit on John Ashbery including a BIOGRAPHY, audio files, online primary texts, criticism, bibliographic information, and external links.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/ashbery/ashbery.htm

This link connects you to the Modern American Poetry site, edited by Professor Cary Nelson at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Here you will find an exhibit of secondary criticism, bibliographic information, and external links on John Ashbery.

BIOGRAPHY

Born and raised in Rochester, New York, John Ashbery attended Harvard College and Columbia University. Three years after publishing his first volume Turandot and Other Poems (1953), Ashbery's Some Trees (1956) was selected by W. H. Auden for the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Series award. Of his subject matter, Ashbery has written "the particular experience is of lesser interest to me than the way it filters through to me. I believe this is the way in which it happens with most people, and I'm trying to record a kind of generalized transcript of what's really going on in our minds all day long." Ashbery has published more than twenty books of verse and prose poems including The Tennis Court Oath (1962), Rivers and Mountains (1966), The Double Dream of Spring (19970), Three Poems (1972), Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), Houseboat Days (1977), As We Know (1979), Shadow Train (1981), Flow Chart (1991), Hotel Lautramont (1994), And the Stars Were Shining (1994), Can You Hear, Bird (19995), Wakefulness (1998), Girls on the Run: A Poem (1999), Your Name Here (2000). He is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He teaches at Brooklyn College.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Herd, David. John Ashbery and American Poetry. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Kelly, Lionel, Ed. Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery. Amerstam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2000.

Lehman, David, Ed. Beyond Amazement: New Essays on John Ashbery. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1980.

Quinney, Laura. The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999.

Reed, Jeremy. Blue Sonata: The Poetry of John Ashbery. Tragara Press, 1994.

Schultz, Susan M, Ed. The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1995.

Shapiro, David. John Ashbery: An Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Columbia UP, 1979.

Shoptow, John. On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994.

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