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John Ashbery

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John Ashbery


Born
in Rochester, New York, The United States
July 28, 1927

Died
September 03, 2017

Genre


Formal experimentation and connection to visual art of noted American poet John Ashbery of the original writers of New York School won a Pulitzer Prize for Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975).

From Harvard and Columbia, John Ashbery earned degrees, and he traveled of James William Fulbright to France in 1955. He published more than twenty best known collections, most recently A Worldly Country (2007). Wystan Hugh Auden selected early Some Trees for the younger series of Elihu Yale, and he later obtained the major national book award and the critics circle. He served as executive editor of Art News and as the critic for magazine and Newsweek. A member of the academies of letters and sciences, he served as chancellor from 1988
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Average rating: 4.1 · 25,298 ratings · 1,839 reviews · 290 distinct worksSimilar authors
Self-Portrait in a Convex M...

4.07 avg rating — 4,691 ratings — published 1975 — 41 editions
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Selected Poems

4.20 avg rating — 1,400 ratings — published 1967 — 20 editions
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The Tennis Court Oath

4.03 avg rating — 678 ratings — published 1962 — 18 editions
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Some Trees

4.04 avg rating — 567 ratings — published 1956 — 18 editions
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Houseboat Days

4.21 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions
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Three Poems

4.48 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1972 — 12 editions
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The Mooring of Starting Out

4.36 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
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Girls on the Run

3.90 avg rating — 367 ratings — published 1999 — 16 editions
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Where Shall I Wander

3.77 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions
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Rivers and Mountains

4.21 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1966 — 13 editions
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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

“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

“The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes”
John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

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