John Ashbery
John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashberyis an 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. Renowned for its postmodern complexity and opacity, Ashbery's work still proves controversial. Ashbery has stated that he wishes his work to be accessible to as many people as possible, and not to be a private dialogue with himself. At the same time,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 July 1927
CountryUnited States of America
The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes
Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.