John Ashbery life and biography

John Lawrence Ashbery is 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. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial.

Author of books:

Turandot and Other Poems (1953, poetry)
Some Trees (1956, poetry)
Three Poems (1957, poetry)
The Poems (1960, poetry)
The Tennis Court Oath (1962, poetry)
Rivers and Mountains (1966, poetry)
Sunrise in Suburbia (1968, poetry)
A Nest of Ninnies (1969, novel, with James Schuyler)
The Double Dream of Spring (1970, poetry)
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975, poetry)
A Wave (1984, poetry)
Flow Chart (1991, poetry)
Your Name Here (2000, poetry)
As Umbrellas Follow Rain (2001, poetry)
Chinese Whispers: Poems (2002, poetry)

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