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John Ashbery

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Born: July 27 1927

Died: 0202 09 20172017

John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and he traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to France in 1955. Best known as a poet, he has published more than twenty collections, most recently A Worldly Country . His Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror won the three major American prizes: the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an early book, Some Trees, was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has served as executive editor of Art News and as the art critic for New York magazine and Newsweek. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1988 to 1999. The winner of many prizes and awards, both nationally and internationally, he has received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was a MacArthur Fellow from 1985 to 1990. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York, and since 1990 he has been the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard.

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John Ashbery

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Books from John Ashbery

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Fantômas

The Tennis Court Oath

Some Trees

Houseboat Days

Girls on the Run

The Mooring of Starting Out

Where Shall I Wander

Three Poems

Rivers and Mountains

The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry

Hebdomeros, with Monsieur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings

Alfred and Guinevere

Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files

Pierre Reverdy

Chinese Whispers

Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment

A Nest of Ninnies

Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel

Can You Hear, Bird