John Ashbery is the author of several 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. His latest book of poetry is Planisphere and his new translation of Rimbaud’s Illuminations will be available in paperback in May.
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A Modern Instance
January 12, 2012
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After the Flood
June 23, 2011
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Tale
January 13, 2011
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‘Love Is Like Park Avenue’
August 13, 2009
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Structures in Sand
February 26, 2009
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Working Overtime
January 15, 2009
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Episode
November 20, 2008
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Summer Reading
October 9, 2008
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Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees
January 11, 2007
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Image Problem
November 30, 2006
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Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
August 10, 2006
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Days of Reckoning
September 23, 2004
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Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse
March 25, 2004
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Statement for Peace
February 13, 2003
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Mordred
September 26, 2002
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Random Jottings of an Old Man
April 26, 2001
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The Book that No One Knows
October 5, 2000
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Crossroads in the Past
June 29, 2000
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Honored Guest
May 11, 2000
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This Room
June 24, 1999
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Tenebrae
April 23, 1998
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By Guess and by Gosh
October 5, 1995
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Weather and Turtles
December 2, 1993
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A Waltz Dream
September 23, 1993
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Two Poems by John Ashbery
August 13, 1992
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Erebus
April 11, 1991
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A Sedentary Existence
March 7, 1991
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On the Empress’s Mind
May 17, 1990
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From Estuaries, from Casinos
January 18, 1990
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A Mood of Quiet Beauty
March 12, 1987
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Never to Get It Really Right
February 12, 1987
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Arrests in Poland
August 14, 1986
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Ditto, Kiddo
June 14, 1984
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The Strayed Reveller
June 2, 1983
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More Pleasant Adventures
March 31, 1983
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Things As They Are
February 3, 1983
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Landscape (After Baudelaire)
April 1, 1982
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Death in Iran
August 13, 1981
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Caesura
March 19, 1981
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Qualm
February 19, 1981
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Two Poems by John Ashbery
November 8, 1979
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Two Poems by John Ashbery
March 31, 1977
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Wet Casements
April 15, 1976
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Houseboat Days
February 19, 1976
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Street Musicians
December 11, 1975
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Valentine
October 2, 1975
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Mixed Feelings
April 3, 1975
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Two Poems
November 28, 1974
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In the American Grain
February 22, 1973
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
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Protest
March 14, 1968