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	John Ashbery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ashbery had become a central figure in American, and English-language poetry in the eighties and nineties, as a number of imitators evidenced.
		Ashbery's works are characterized by a free-flowing, often disjunctive syntax, extensive linguistic play, often infused with considerable humor, and a prosaic, sometimes disarmingly flat or parodic tone.
		Ashbery also has written art criticism, collected in "Reported Sightings." He has written three plays and, with James Schuyler, the novel "A Nest of Ninnies." Ashbery's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University were published as "Other Traditions" in 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Ashbery (483 words)

	EPC/Ashbery Author Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		John Ashbery Interviewed by John Tranter, April 1985
		John Ashbery at the Academy of American Poets
		John Ashbery in 1962 from Modern American Poetry, University of Pennsylvania
	wings.buffalo.edu /epc/authors/ashbery (60 words)

	NORMALIZING JOHN ASHBERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ashbery, Longenbach argues, is "the least oppositional of poets." And again, "However distinctive his own poems have seemed, Ashbery has stayed resolutely in motion, refusing to choose sides in the debates that preoccupied so many American poets [e.g., Olson, Ginsberg] after modernism" (ALH 105).
		He admits that "Ashbery himself is oddly resistant to any preference for his more explicable poems" (ALH 119), but this is not to say that the reader can't prefer those that are, as Longenbach himself so evidently does.
		But Ashbery's poem is doing something else--establishing, for one thing, a different relationship between writer and reader, a relationship that looks ahead to the poetics of "embodiment" as practiced by such later poets as Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews, Maggie O'Sullivan and Karen MacCormack.
	wings.buffalo.edu /epc/authors/perloff/ashbery.html (2742 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: John Ashbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		John Ashbery was born on 28 July 1927 in Rochester, New York, and grew up on a farm thirty miles away in Sodus, New York.
		Ashbery seems to present himself here as a kind of distrustful outcast (suggested by “the hard stare”), though the lines also suggest a complicated mix of the gentle, the geeky and the learned.
		Ashbery continues to be suspicious of collective movements – we know this because of his lifelong promotion of unaffiliated “outcast” writers who never quite fit in to any movement (like John Clare, Raymond Roussel and Laura Riding), and through his well-publicized resistance to being labeled as a “New York School” poet.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=163 (2301 words)

	The Instruction Manual By Meghan O'Rourke
		Ashbery's second radical move was to change the way the poet saw himself in relation to contemporary society.
		Ashbery becomes a kind of radio transistor through which many different voices, genres, and curious archaeological remains of language filter, so that the poems are like the sound you would hear if you spun through the FM/AM dial without stopping to tune into any one program for long.
		A typical Ashbery move is to retreat from this pluralistic "you" or "we" of identifying with others to an intensely singular "you"—the you of the self suddenly and ruefully alienated from his surroundings, the one we address in private.
	www.slate.com /id/2114565 (1149 words)

	CPR - The Voice of the Poet: John Ashbery by Ernest Hilbert
		Ashbery’s hypnotic long reading of it is the centerpiece of these recordings, and one is again surprised by its conversational tone and exhilarating shifts of focus and allusional fabric.
		Ashbery’s career as an art critic is everywhere in evidence, infiltrating the more formal qualities of the poems in a manner altogether different from his brother in arms Frank O’Hara, who was also an art critic and a curator at MoMA.
		Similarly, Ashbery’s sweeping deployment of pronouns tends to draw the reader in, as though a sense of community, however desperate and confused, were formed, or at least framed, in the poem, but a sphinx has mounted this particular pulpit.
	www.cprw.com /Hilbert/poetvoice6.htm (1564 words)

	John Ashbery (b. 1927) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I have found it useful to present Ashbery in relation to the visual arts, in particular the shifting perspective of comic strips, the surprising juxtapositions of collage and assemblage, the vitality of abstract impressionism, and the metaphysical imagery of de Chirico.
		Ashbery's combination of surrealism and formalism typifies a certain strain of postmodernism.
		Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler are or were close friends of Ashbery; together they formed the nucleus of what is sometimes dubbed the New York School of Poetry.
	www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/ashbery.html (406 words)

	John Ashbery's Chinese Whispers, by John Tranter
		John Ashbery is of course a person, an individual with distinctive characteristics.
		"Ashbery" has been put together gradually over half a century in a largely unconscious collaborative project by a construction team of hundreds of magazine editors, publishers, reviewers, fellow-poets, and cultural and literary critics, as well as the person at the centre of it all.
		It's the overall dynamic effect that seems to matter with Ashbery, as with Pollock, and the reader is encouraged to focus on large and tessellated networks of meaning, rather than on single phrases or linear sentences.
	www.poetrysociety.org.uk /review/pr92-4/tranter.htm (1504 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - John Ashbery, New York State Poet
		Ashbery’s laurels rest on the enormous scope and variety of his poetic oeuvre, the originality of his vision and voice, and on the discernible influence his works have exerted on the poetry of his contemporaries.
		In his estimate of Ashbery's continuing significance to poetry, Harold Bloom noted in 1992 that: "At sixty-five, Ashbery follows Stevens and Yeats in the amazing trait of achieving fresh greatness as a poet, instead of ebbing or merely repeating himself.
		In 1980 Ashbery became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1982 he was named a fellow of the Academy of American Poets, for which he was elected Chancellor in 1988.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/ashberyjohn.html (714 words)

	John Ashbery
		John Lawrence Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, on July 28th 1927, the first son of Chester Frederick (a farmer) and Helen Ashbery (a biology teacher).
		Ashbery obtained his BA in 1949, and went to Columbia University to study for his MA.
		Ashbery has said that when he was working on the poems that went into The Tennis Court Oath he was 'taking language apart so I could look at the pieces that made it up', and that after he'd done this he was intent on 'putting [the pieces] back together again'.
	www.interviews-with-poets.com /john-ashbery/ashbery-note.html (1370 words)

	the Tribe of John Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Too many discussions of Ashbery's work are based on a simple dichotomy of good or bad, the writer's point of view determined by his or her part in the contemporary comedy of poetic manners.
		More than any other critic, Vendler has introduced and fought for Ashbery as a public poet, one who should be widely read as a barometer of contemporary language and "the moral life." But the problem with her strategy is that it is every bit as idiosyncratic as she conceives Ashbery to be.
		Rather than regard Ashbery as a solitary quest-hero, in the Bloom and Vendler mode, they claim that "the business of explaining Ashbery becomes a significant kind of cultural self-definition."" Even more than that, and this is to raise the stakes considerably, "What is at stake in the criticism of Ashbery...
	epc.buffalo.edu /authors/schultz/tribe/intro.html (2341 words)

	UPNE \| The Tennis Court Oath
		Ashbery’s work difficult, even forbidding; but those who are sensitive to new directions in ideas and the arts will discover here much to quicken and delight them.
		John Ashbery’s second book, The Tennis Court Oaths, first published by Wesleyan in 1962, remains a touchstone of contemporary avant-garde poetry.
		JOHN ASHBERY, a native of Rochester, New York, has lived since 1958 in Paris, where he is art critic for the New York herald tribune European edition and for Art International of Zurich.
	www.upne.com /0-8195-1013-0.html (504 words)

	Other Traditions (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
		John Ashbery explores the work of six writers whose poetry he turns to when requiring a ""poetic jump-start"".
		John Brooks Wheelwright and Laura Riding are included, from the early 20th century, as is Raymond Roussel (a French precursor to anti-novelists, a specialist in parenthetical labyrinths, and endlessly detailed descriptions of bottle-labels).
		We learn that Ashbery is not fond of E E Cummings, and he is unconvincingly semi-penitent of this "blind spot": Cummings, with his Herrick-like lucidity, his straightforward heterosexuality, and his resolute nonleftism, would not appear to fit nicely into Ashbery's pantheon.
	www.textbooksrus.com /search/bookdetail?isbn=067400664X (1132 words)

	General Commentary on John Ashbery
		Ashbery’s subject matter is similar to that of his favorite poet, Wallace Stevens.
		… In interviews Ashbery denies that he parodies, and if by the term we mean the echoing of a voice for the sake of ridiculing it, we may concede that his phrasing is seldom merely parodic.
		His attitudes and emotions are indescribably gallant as he mingles humor with pathos, resignation and elegy with hope, and maintains his relaxed, equable, fluent, wonderfully imaginative speech despite premises that might have led to despair..
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/ashbery/general.htm (1017 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureJohn Ashbery - Author Page
		John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, and attended Harvard University, where he met the poets Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch.
		Ashbery is one of the few poets who has been able to gain the admiration of both experimental artists and conservative academicians, winning virtually all the major literary prizes this country has to offer.
		Reality for Ashbery is not a hard, fixed, or certain entity but an awareness brimming with impressions, memories, and desires which are constantly transformed, repeated, blurred, and blotted out.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/ashbery_jo.html (590 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - John Ashbery
		Articles by Marjorie Perloff and John Tranter, and "The Burden of the Park".
		Introduction to The Tribe of John Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry
		John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/238 (203 words)

	Verse: NEW! Review of John Ashbery
		In Selected Prose John Ashbery is self-effacing, continually turning to textual evidence to deliberate over telling details and human ingenuity in the telling of details.
		Ashbery's argument is further synthesized when he addresses Elizabeth Bishop.
		True, one is struck by bits of pronouncement he off-handedly allows, criticism is the tail wagging the dog of poetry, for example, or not as debatable, the verb to witness is "pretentious and constrained" when it comes to describing a poet's activities.
	versemag.blogspot.com /2005/02/new-review-of-john-ashbery.html (1136 words)

	S/FJ: READINGS
		Ashbery uses a series of astrological indicators and variables--colors, metals and objects related to each sign--as instigators.
		Ashbery said he likes to see what he's seeing while he travels and rarely writes on the road.
		Ashbery pointed out that most of Scelsi's music was performed and recorded after his death.
	sfj.abstractdynamics.org /archives/001613.html (1706 words)

	Kelly Writers House Fellows - John Ashbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		John Ashbery reading - A digital recording of the March 25, 2002 event where Ashbery read from your name here (2000) and As Umbrellas Follow Rain (2001) and answered questions.
		John Ashbery interview/conversation - A recording of the March 26, 2002 audiocast of the interview and conversation with John Ashbery, moderated by Al Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House.
		Born in Rochester, New York, in 1927, John Ashbery is the author of over twenty books of poetry.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~whfellow/ashbery.html (303 words)

	Jacket 2 - Marjorie Perloff - Normalizing John Ashbery
		Ashbery, Longenbach argues, is "the least oppositional of poets."[endnote 1]
		The adjective sequence "Tall, pissed-off" is an Ashbery signature: the conjunction of neutral description with colloquial characterization, the shift of linguistic codes further compounded by the curious use of "its" where we would expect "his," the umbrella thus belonging to the day, not the person.
		But Ashbery’s poem is doing something else -- establishing, for one thing, a different relationship between writer and reader, a relationship that looks ahead to the poetics of "embodiment" as practiced by such later poets as Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews, Maggie O’Sullivan and Karen Mac Cormack.
	jacketmagazine.com /02/perloff02.html (3097 words)

	No. 1725: Creative Collaboration
		When Pulitzer-prize-winning poet John Ashbery explains the meaning of the word "collaboration" here, you might think he's mocking it.
		Ashbery uses the expression musée imaginaire for his museum of the imagination -- for the jumble of ideas we turn to whenever we set out to create anything.
		You may see these pictures at the "Jane Hammond, The John Ashbery Collaboration, 1993-2002" exhibit at the Blaffer Gallery, the art museum of the University of Houston, September 28 through November 24, 2002.
	www.uh.edu /admin/engines/epi1725.htm (597 words)

	"Celebration of Failure": The Influence of Laura Riding on John Ashbery
		Indeed, to say that Ashbery has shown no sign of renouncing the writing of poetry, as Riding did not long after the publication of her Collected Poems in 1938, would be an understatement.
		Ashbery may be understood as being very much concerned with holding open the possibility of what Martin Buber termed "relation"—in which a seemingly retrogressive "moving backward to a position of I-it" (a movement into "latency") "may be the prelude to a new movement towards I-you," as Pamela Vermes explains.
		Ashbery could be said to write in keeping with Riding's view "that behind whatever is said is a consciousness of what is left unsaid, and an implication of ideal completeness, by the discontent with which the single statement is uttered."
	www.flashpointmag.com /riding.htm (4218 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Note on Poetry: John Ashbery Revisited
		Ashbery read "Some Trees," a lyrical piece written during his time as a Harvard undergraduate (later published in 1956), "The Painter" (see your Norton Anthology), and several recent works illustrative of his trademark style.
		Even Ashbery's ascent to the ranks of "academic poetry" was-and still is-something of a mystery to his underground contemporaries.
		John Shoptaw, one of Ashbery's foremost critics, has defined Ashbery's style as a "poetics of indeterminacy"-a euphemism, perhaps, for the poetry's intimidating lack of structural or thematic unity.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=102705 (1355 words)

	John Ashbery -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Ashbery graduated from Harvard University in 1949 and received a master's degree from Columbia University (N.Y.) in 1951.
		Others, like John Ashbery, felt that we live in an absurd world where thoughts and feelings have only an arbitrary and illogical connection with exterior reality.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9009810 (665 words)

	Partying on Parnassus: the New York School Poets by John Simon
		Ashbery’s poetic assumptions are the opposite of Larkin’s.
		John Ashbery (born 1927), Frank O’Hara (1926–1966), Kenneth Koch (born 1925), and James Schuyler (1923–1991): three out of four of them went to Harvard, three out of four wrote professional art criticism, and three were, or are, homosexual.
		Ashbery is talking about or being … his characteristic gesture is an effete and cerebral whimsy”—Lehman has nothing but praise.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/17/oct98/simon.htm (3269 words)

	Salon Directory
		John Ashbery is one of America's most acclaimed living poets, and his work has been honored with the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, all in 1976.
		From the start of his career, Ashbery has been among the most innovative poets in the language, and he has kept his work open to both experiment and tradition.
		Listen to John Ashbery read "Memories of Imperialism" and "The Underwriters." Both are featured on the release dedicated to Ashbery in "The Voice of the Poet" series [Random House Audio], edited by J.D. McClatchy.
	dir.salon.com /story/audio/poetry/2003/01/08/votp_ashbery/index.html (216 words)

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