JOHN ASHBERY (1927-2017) was an American poet renowned for the elegance, originality, and opacity of his verse.  He published more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism, and his work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.  

He won nearly every major American award for poetry.  His collection A WAVE (1984) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR (1975) received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and SOME TREES (1956) was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series.

Ashbery's poetry was initially greeted with puzzlement and even hostility because of its extreme difficulty.  His poems are characterized by arresting images and exquisite rhythms, an intricate form, and sudden shifts in tone and subject that produce curious effects of fragmentation and obliquity.  They are appreciated more as highly suggestive and dreamlike meditations rather than for any decipherable meaning they may possess.  Ashbery stated that he wished 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."

John Ashbery died on September 3, 2017.


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                               == POETRY ==

* And the Stars Were Shining (Open Road, 2014)
* April Galleons (Open Road, 2014)
* As We Know (Open Road, 2014)
* Breezeway (Ecco, 2015)
* Can You Hear, Bird (Open Road, 2014)
* Chinese Whispers (Open Road, 2014)
* Commotion of the Birds (Ecco, 2016)
* Double Dream of Spring (Open Road, 2014)
* Flow Chart (Open Road, 2014)
* Girls on the Run (Open Road, 2014)
* Hotel Lautréamont (Open Road, 2014)
* Houseboat Days (Open Road, 2014)
* Planisphere (Ecco, 2009) -- PDF
* Rivers and Mountains (Open Road, 2014)
* Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Viking, 1975) -- PDF
* Shadow Train (Open Road, 2014)
* Some Trees (Open Road, 2014)
* Tennis Court Oath, The (Wesleyan, 1962) -- PDF
* Three Poems (Open Road, 2013)
* Wakefulness (Open Road, 2014)
* Wave, A (Open Road, 2014)
* Where Shall I Wander (HarperCollins, 2007) -- PDF
* Worldly Country, A (HarperCollins, 2007) -- PDF
* Your Name Here (Open Road, 2014)


                              == FICTION ==

* A Nest of Ninnies [with James Schuyler] (Ecco, 1997) -- PDF


                           == TRANSLATIONS ==

* Collected French Translations: Prose (FSG, 2014). Rosanne Wasserman and Eugene Richie, eds.

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