John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Renowned for its postmodern complexity and opacity, Ashbery's work still proves controversial. Ashbery has stated that he wishes his work to be accessible to as many people as possible, and not to be a private dialogue with himself. At the same time, he once joked that some critics still view him as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry defies even the rules and logic of Surrealism."
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... Ben Hickman, John Ashbery and English Poetry, Edinburgh University Press, 2012 Stephen Shore, Lynne Tillman, The Velvet Years Warhol's Factory 1965-1967 David Perkins, A History of Modern Poetry ...
... Ammons from "Strip"" 1997 John Ashbery "Baked Alaska" 1993 John Ashbery "Myrtle" 1994 John Ashbery "The Problem of Anxiety" 1997 Elizabeth Bishop "It is Marvellous ... Hecht "Prospects" 1995 Edward Hirsch "Man on a Fire Escape" 1992 John Hollander "Kinneret" 1989 John Hollander "An Old-Fashioned Song" 1990 John ...
... clear neck of the woods as well as if we lived there ourselves." -John Russell - The New York Times, 18 May 1979 "...These somewhat mysterious drawings project an ... on simplicity to imply the complexities of things." -John Bernard Myers - Art World, New York, May 1982 " A true painter is on hand here, and one ... with Rodrigo Moynihan, Sonia Orwell and John Ashbery ...
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Also the means of keeping it, of not turning to dust
Or gestures somewhere up ahead
But of becoming complicated like the torrent
In new dark passages, tears and laughter which
Are a sign of life, of distant life in this case.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“In the wings the tenor hungers
For the heroine’s convulsive kiss, and Faust
Moves forward, no longer young, reappearing
And reappearing for the last time. The opera
Faust would no longer need its phantom.
On the bare, sunlit stage the hungers could begin.”
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“After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.”
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