John Ashbery
John Ashbery 's latest book of poems is Quick Question . From 1960 to 1965, he was the International Herald Tribune art critic and ArtNews Paris correspondent. France has named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Officier of the L�gion d'Honneur. He has received a National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and President Obama awarded him a National Humanities Medal. Rosanne Wasserman and Eugene Richie 's latest poetry book is Psyche and Amor....See more
John Ashbery 's latest book of poems is Quick Question . From 1960 to 1965, he was the International Herald Tribune art critic and ArtNews Paris correspondent. France has named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Officier of the L�gion d'Honneur. He has received a National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and President Obama awarded him a National Humanities Medal. Rosanne Wasserman and Eugene Richie 's latest poetry book is Psyche and Amor. They have edited Ashbery's essays in Other Traditions and in Selected Prose , as well as his translations of Pierre Martory. She teaches at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; he is the director of writing at Pace University. See less
John Ashbery's Featured Books
John Ashbery book reviews
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Self-portrait in a convex mirror
Asbery's Self-Portrait
The American poet John Ashbery's (1927 -- 2017) book "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" received extraordinary accolades upon its publication in 1975. The book won the Pulitzer Prize, the National ... Read More
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Selected Poems
difficult poet
Ashbery is the most respected living poet (as of october of '08) but I don't particularly like him. He is highly influenced by the surrealists, apparently, and his poems have no logical flow, which I ... Read More
