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peteb — 2011-12-30T04:03:06Z

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- The first time Ashbery saw his poetry work in print was while he was attending [http://www.deerfield.edu/ Deerfield Academy]. His writings appeared in ''Poetry'', the most illustrious poetry magazine at the time. Ashbery studied at Harvard, Columbia, and New York universities. In 1949 he graduated from Harvard; two years later he received a master's degree from Columbia University. After working in publishing, he moved to France in the mid-1950, just before the publication of his second collection of poems.	+ The first time Ashbery saw his poetry work in print was while he was attending [http://www.deerfield.edu Deerfield Academy]. His writings appeared in ''Poetry'', the most illustrious poetry magazine at the time. Ashbery studied at Harvard, Columbia, and New York universities. In 1949 he graduated from Harvard; two years later he received a master's degree from Columbia University. After working in publishing, he moved to France in the mid-1950, just before the publication of his second collection of poems.
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- * [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ashbery/ Ashberry on University of Buffalo site] also on their site [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/schultz/tribe/intro.html The Tribe of John Ashberry] - * [http://www.slate.com/id/2114565/ How to Read Ashberry] on Slate.com	+ * [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ashbery Ashberry on University of Buffalo site] also on their site [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/schultz/tribe/intro.html The Tribe of John Ashberry] + * [http://www.slate.com/id/2114565 How to Read Ashberry] on Slate.com

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peteb — 2010-04-28T01:07:36Z

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BradMandell — 2008-09-20T13:16:46Z

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	+ + '''Notes and References''' + * [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/238 Ashberry on Poets.org] + * [http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=John+Ashbery Some Works on Google Books] + * [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ashbery/ Ashberry on University of Buffalo site] also on their site [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/schultz/tribe/intro.html The Tribe of John Ashberry] + * [http://www.slate.com/id/2114565/ How to Read Ashberry] on Slate.com + + [[Comments]]

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BradMandell — 2008-09-20T13:04:11Z

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- - The poet '''John Ashbery''' (1927-) was born in Rochester, NY and raised on a farm near ["Lake Ontario"]. His father was a farmer and his mother a biology teacher. His first ambition was to be a painter and from the age of about eleven until fifteen he took weekly classes at the art museum in Rochester.	+ [[Image(johnashbury.jpg, "Wikimedia Commons", right, thumbnail)]] + The ["Poetry" poet] '''[wiki:wikipedia:John_Ashbery John Ashbery]''' (1927-) was born in ["Rochester"], NY and raised on a farm near ["Lake Ontario"]. His father was a farmer and his mother a biology teacher. His first ambition was to be a painter and from the age of about eleven until fifteen he took weekly classes at the art museum in Rochester.
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- From ''They Only Dream of America'': - \|\|And hiding from darkness in barns\|\| - \|\|They can be grownups now\|\| - \|\|And the murderer's ash tray is more easily-\|\| - \|\|The lake a lilac cube.\|\|	+ "'' 'No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery', Langdon Hammer, chairman of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008. 'No American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound'. Stephen Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English has compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot, the 'last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible'.''"[[Footnote(Wikipedia Article)]] + + From '''''They Only Dream of America''''': + \|\|''And hiding from darkness in barns[[BR]]They can be grownups now[[BR]]And the murderer's ash tray is more easily-[[BR]]The lake a lilac cube.''\|\|

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BradMandell — 2008-09-20T13:00:29Z

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alexandergartley — 2008-07-21T17:52:48Z

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alexandergartley — 2008-04-22T15:08:52Z

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- The first time Ashbery saw his poetry work in print was while he was attending Deerfield Academy. His writings appeared in ''Poetry'', the most illustrious poetry magazine at the time. Ashbery studied at Harvard, Columbia, and New York universities. In 1949 he graduated from Harvard; two years later he received a master's degree from Columbia University. After working in publishing, he moved to France in the mid-1950, just before the publication of his second collection of poems.	+ The first time Ashbery saw his poetry work in print was while he was attending [http://www.deerfield.edu/ Deerfield Academy]. His writings appeared in ''Poetry'', the most illustrious poetry magazine at the time. Ashbery studied at Harvard, Columbia, and New York universities. In 1949 he graduated from Harvard; two years later he received a master's degree from Columbia University. After working in publishing, he moved to France in the mid-1950, just before the publication of his second collection of poems.

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alexandergartley — 2007-10-14T06:59:53Z

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- Ashbery has received several literary awards. In 1975 he won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.' In 1984 he received the Bollingen Prize and in 1985 a MacArthur Prize fellowship.	+ Ashbery has received several literary awards. In 1975 he won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.' In 1984 he received the [wiki:Wikipedia:Bollingen_Prize Bollingen Prize] and in 1985 a MacArthur Prize fellowship.

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alexandergartley — 2007-07-26T19:32:38Z

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peteb — 2006-11-23T00:25:21Z

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- Ashbery has received several literary awards. In 1975 he won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.' In 1984 he received the Bollingen Prize and in 1985 a MacArthur Prize fellowship.	+ Ashbery has received several literary awards. In 1975 he won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.' In 1984 he received the Bollingen Prize and in 1985 a MacArthur Prize fellowship.
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MariahBetz — 2005-11-20T18:59:23Z

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	+ [[Image(jashbery.jpg, "The Poet John Ashbery", 254, right, thumbnail)]] + + The poet John Ashbery (1927-) was born in Rochester, NY and raised on a farm near Lake Ontario. His father was a farmer and his mother a biology teacher. His first ambition was to be a painter and from the age of about eleven until fifteen he took weekly classes at the art museum in Rochester. + + The first time Ashbery saw his poetry work in print was while he was attending Deerfield Academy. His writings appeared in ''Poetry'', the most illustrious poetry magazine at the time. Ashbery studied at Harvard, Columbia, and New York universities. In 1949 he graduated from Harvard; two years later he received a master's degree from Columbia University. After working in publishing, he moved to France in the mid-1950, just before the publication of his second collection of poems. + + Ashbery spent ten years in Paris, most of those spent living with the French writer Pierre Martory. He studied on a Fulbright fellowship and was the art editor for the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune. Ashbery's second collection of poems, Some Trees (1956), was chosen by the poet W.H. Auden to be included in a Yale University series of modern poets. In 1965 he returned to the US. He worked as an art critic for New York and Newsweek magazine. From 1965 to 1972 he served on the editorial board of ARTnews and then worked as a creative writing teacher in Brooklyn College and as the Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. From 1976 to 1980 he was an editor of Partisan Review. In 1989 Ashbery's writings on art were collected in Reported Sightings. + + Ashbery has received several literary awards. In 1975 he won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.' In 1984 he received the Bollingen Prize and in 1985 a MacArthur Prize fellowship. + + From ''They Only Dream of America'': + \|\|And hiding from darkness in barns\|\| + \|\|They can be grownups now\|\| + \|\|And the murderers ash tray is more easily-\|\| + \|\|The lake a lilac cube.\|\|

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MariahBetz — 2005-11-20T18:53:35Z

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