John Ashbery

John Ashbery

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

From the Review

January 11, 2007: Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees (poem)

November 30, 2006: Image Problem (poem)

August 10, 2006: Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)

September 23, 2004: Days of Reckoning (poem)

March 25, 2004: Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse (poem)

February 13, 2003: Statement for Peace (letter)

September 26, 2002: Mordred (poem)

April 26, 2001: Random Jottings of An Old Man (poem)

October 5, 2000: The Book that No One Knows

June 29, 2000: Crossroads in the Past (poem)

May 11, 2000: Honored Guest (poem)

June 24, 1999: This Room (poem)

April 23, 1998: Tenebrae (poem)

October 5, 1995: By Guess and by Gosh (poem)

December 2, 1993: Weather and Turtles (poem)

September 23, 1993: A Waltz Dream (poem)

August 13, 1992: Two Poems by John Ashbery (poem)

April 11, 1991: Erebus (poem)

March 7, 1991: A Sedentary Existence (poem)

May 17, 1990: On the Empress's Mind (poem)

January 18, 1990: From Estuaries, from Casinos (poem)

March 12, 1987: A Mood of Quiet Beauty (poem)

February 12, 1987: Never to Get It Really Right (poem)

August 14, 1986: Arrests in Poland (letter)

June 14, 1984: Ditto, Kiddo (poem)

June 2, 1983: The Strayed Reveller (poem)

March 31, 1983: More Pleasant Adventures (poem)

February 3, 1983: Things As They Are

April 1, 1982: Landscape (After Baudelaire) (poem)

August 13, 1981: Death in Iran (letter)

March 19, 1981: Caesura (poem)

February 19, 1981: Qualm (poem)

November 8, 1979: Two Poems by John Ashbery (poem)

March 31, 1977: Two Poems by John Ashbery (poem)

April 15, 1976: Wet Casements (poem)

February 19, 1976: Houseboat Days (poem)

December 11, 1975: Street Musicians (poem)

October 2, 1975: Valentine (poem)

April 3, 1975: Mixed Feelings (poem)

November 28, 1974: Two Poems (poem)

February 22, 1973: In the American Grain

Collected Poems of John Wheelwright edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Collected Poems, 1951-1971 by A.R. Ammons

Tape for the Turn of the Year by A.R. Ammons

March 14, 1968: Protest (letter)

From New York Review Books

Alfred and Guinevere Schuyler has a pitch-perfect ear for the children's voices, and the story, told entirely through snatches of dialogue and passages from Guinevere's diary, is a tour de force of comic and poetic invention.

Books by John Ashbery

Conjunctions: 40, 40x40 (2003)
Soft Sift: Poems (2003)
Chinese Whispers: Poems (2002)
100 Multiple-Choice Questions (2002)
Other Traditions (2001)
Houseboat Days: Poems (1999)
April Galleons: Poems (1999)
And the Stars Were Shining (1995)