John Ashbery
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July 28, 1927
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Poetry
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John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and he traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to France in 1955. Best known as a poet, he has published more than twenty collections, most recently A Worldly Country (Ecco, 2007). His Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Viking, 1975) won the three major American prizes: the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an early book, Some Trees, was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has served as executive editor of Art News and as the art critic for New York magazine and Newsweek. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he serv...more
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems by John Ashbery (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.33 — 457 ratings — published 1990 6 editions |
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Selected Poems by John Ashbery (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.31 — 255 ratings — published 1967 7 editions |
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The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems by John Ashbery (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.17 — 157 ratings — published 1977 |
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The Mooring Of Starting Out by John Ashbery (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.40 — 136 ratings — published 1997 3 editions |
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Girls on the Run: A Poem by John Ashbery (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.84 — 117 ratings — published 1999 3 editions |
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Houseboat Days: Poems by John Ashbery (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.38 — 97 ratings — published 1977 3 editions |
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Where Shall I Wander: New Poems by John Ashbery (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.78 — 98 ratings — published 2005 2 editions |
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Flow Chart: A Poem by John Ashbery (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.40 — 80 ratings — published 1991 5 editions |
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Some Trees by John Ashbery (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.33 — 78 ratings — published 1984 4 editions |
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Hotel Lautreamont by John Ashbery (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.98 — 81 ratings — published 1992 4 editions |
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"In the increasingly convincing darkness
The words become palpable, like a fruit
That is too beautiful to eat. "
— John Ashbery
4 editions
The words become palpable, like a fruit
That is too beautiful to eat. "
— John Ashbery
"The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure of this: we in fact cannot aver with any degree of certainty that we are ignorant. Yet this is not so bad; we have at any rate kept our open-mindedness -- that, at least, we may be sure that we have -- and are not in any danger, or so it seems, of freezing into the pious attitudes of those true spiritual bigots whose faces are turned toward eternity and who therefore can see nothing."
— John Ashbery (Three Poems)
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— John Ashbery (Three Poems)
"But it is the same thing we are all seeing,
Our world. Go after it,
Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick.
Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again,
Into the chamber behind the thought"
— John Ashbery
4 editions
Our world. Go after it,
Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick.
Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again,
Into the chamber behind the thought"
— John Ashbery
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