John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet. He wrote 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.

Ashbery died on September 3, 2017 at his home in Hudson, New York of natural causes at the age of 90.http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/john-ashbery-regarded-worlds-greatest-poets-dies-age-49599605 He was survived by his husband David Kermani.

Poetry

 Turandot and other poems (1953)
 Some Trees (1956), winner of the 1955 Yale Series of Younger Poets
 The Tennis Court Oath (1962)
 Rivers and Mountains (1966)
 The Double Dream of Spring (1970)
 Three Poems (1972)
 The Vermont Notebook (1975)
 Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975)
 Houseboat Days (1977)
 As We Know (1979)
 Shadow Train (1981)
 A Wave (1984)
 April Galleons (1987)
 Flow Chart (1991)
 Hotel Lautréamont (1992)
 And the Stars Were Shining (1994)
 Can You Hear, Bird? (1995)
 The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry (1997)
 Wakefulness (1998)
 Girls on the Run (1999)
 Your Name Here (2000)
 As Umbrellas Follow Rain (2001)
 Chinese Whispers (2002)
 Where Shall I Wander (2005)
 Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (2007) 
 A Worldly Country (2007)
 Planisphere (2009)
 Collected Poems 1956–87 (2010)
 Quick Question (2012)
 Breezeway (2015)
 Commotion of the Birds (2016)
 They Knew What They Wanted: Collages and Poems (2018)
 Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works (2021)

 Related pages 
List of poets from North America

References

Other websites

‘a serpentine | Gesture’: The Synthetic Reconstruction of Ashbery’s Poetic Voice in Cordite Poetry Review
Poems by John Ashbery at PoetryFoundation.org
The Ashbery Resource Center
John Ashbery at EPC
John Ashbery--the Academy of American Poets
John Ashbery at PennSound

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