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John Ashbery

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July 28, 1927 in The United States

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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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Books by John Ashbery

Average rating: 4.14 · 5,543 ratings · 341 reviews · 114 distinct works

	Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 4.17 avg rating — 1,100 ratings — published 1976 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems 4.20 avg rating — 463 ratings — published 1967 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Tennis Court Oath 4.13 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Mooring of Starting Out 4.38 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Girls on the Run 3.85 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Houseboat Days 4.37 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Some Trees 4.29 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1956 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Where Shall I Wander 3.79 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Flow Chart 4.25 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Three Poems 4.57 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by John Ashbery

“Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.”
― John Ashbery

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“Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents,
through narrow passes.
But will he know where to find you,
Recognize you when he sees you,
Give you the thing he has for you?”
― John Ashbery

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“In the increasingly convincing darkness
The words become palpable, like a fruit
That is too beautiful to eat. ”
― John Ashbery

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