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John Ashbery
(July 28, 1927 / Rochester/ New York)
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John Ashbery 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. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his Selected Prose, he characterizes himself as having been described as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry defies even the rules and logic of Surrealism." Although renowned for the postmodern complexity and opacity of his work, Ashbery has stated that he wishes it to be accessible to as many people as possible, not a private dialogue. more >>
 
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But it is the same thing we are all seeing,
Our world. Go after it,
Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick.
Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again,
Into the ch...
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John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "A Tone Poem."
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I am not offended that these creatures (that's the word)
Of my imagination seem to hold me in such light esteem,
Pay so little heed to me. It's part of a complicated
Flirtation routine,...
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John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "Mixed Feelings."
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Gilles Goyette (1/14/2012 8:09:00 AM)
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You change the way I read. You change my expectations of language. Always a challenge, but completely worth the effort.
p.a. noushad (10/24/2008 3:23:00 AM)
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beautiful your nerration is.
 
 
 
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