John Ashbery Bibliography

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John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927, he is well known as an art critic and poet. He is perhaps one of the best known Poets of the “New York School”. Ashbery graduated from Harvard in 1947 where he wrote a study on his favourite poet Wallace Stevens. The poetry of Stevens has inﬂuenced Ashbery’s own poetry, however his poetry is characterized by originality in both his form of poems and their content.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Turandot and Other Poems (chapbook), Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953 Some Trees (poems), foreword by W. H. Auden, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1956, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ), 1978. The Poems, Tiber Press (New York, NY), 1960. The Tennis Court Oath (poems), Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1962. Rivers and Mountains (poems), Holt (New York, NY), 1966. Selected Poems, J. Cape (London, England), 1967. Sunrise in Suburbia, Phoenix Bookshop (New York, NY), 1968.

Some Trees Three Madrigals, Poet’s Press, 1969. (With James Schuyler) A Nest of Ninnies (novel), Dutton (New York, NY), 1969. Fragment (poem), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1969. Evening in the Country, Spanish Main Press, 1970. The Double Dream of Spring (includes “Fragment,” originally published in book form), Dutton (New York, NY), 1970. The New Spirit, Adventures in Poetry, 1970. (With Lee Hawood and Tom Raworth) Penguin Modern Poets 19, Penguin (New York, NY), 1971. Three Poems, Viking (New York, NY), 1972. The Serious Doll, privately printed, 1975. (With Joe Brainard) The Vermont Notebook (poems), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1975, reprinted, Granary Books (Calais, VT), 2001. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (poems), Viking (New York, NY), 1975. Houseboat Days (poems), Viking (New York, NY), 1977, reprinted, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1999. As We Know (poems), Viking (New York, NY), 1979. Shadow Train: Fifty Lyrics, Viking (New York, NY), 1981. (With others) R. B. Kitaj: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), 1981. (With others) Apparitions (poems), Lord John Press (Northridge, CA), 1981. Fairﬁeld Porter: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction, New York Graphic Soci ety (New York, NY), 1983. A Wave (poems), Viking (New York, NY), 1984. Selected Poems, Viking (New York, NY), 1985. April Galleons, Penguin (New York, NY), 1987. The Ice Storm, Hanuman Books, 1987. Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles, 1957-1987 (art criticism), edited by David Berg man, Knopf (New York, NY), 1989. Three Poems (different text than 1972 volume with same title), Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1989. Haibun, illustrations by Judith Shea, Collectif Génération (Colombes, France), 1990. Flow Chart (poem), Knopf (New York, NY), 1991. Hotel Lautreamont, Knopf (New York, NY), 1992. Three Books (poems), Penguin (New York, NY), 1993. And the Stars Were Shining, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1994. Can You Hear, Bird, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1995. Pistils (essays), photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, Random House (New York, NY), 1996. Wakefulness, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1998. The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ), 1998. Girls on the Run, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1999. Other Traditions: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Harvard University Press (Cam bridge, MA), 2000. Your Name Here: Poems, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2000. As Umbrellas Follow Rain, Qua Books (Lennox, MA), 2001. Chinese Whispers: Poems, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2002. Where Shall I Wander?, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2005. Selected Prose, edited by Eugene Richie, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2005. A Worldly Country, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 2007. Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 2007. John Ashbery: Collected Poems, 1956-1987, Library of America, No. 187 (New York, NY), 2008 Planisphere - New Poems, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 2009. Planisphere, front and back cover

Translator, from the French, of the works of Raymond Roussel, Andre Breton, Pierre Reverdy, Arthur Cravan, Max Jacob, Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud, Noel Vexin, Franck André Jamme and others.

Jean-Jacques Mayoux, Melville, Grove (New York, NY), 1960 (translator). Murder in Montmartre, Dell (New York, NY), 1960 (Translator, as Jonas Berry, with Lawrence G. Blochman). Genevieve Manceron, The Deadlier Sex, Dell (New York, NY), 1961 (translator, as Jonas Berry, with Lawrence G. Blochman). Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Fantomas, Morrow (New York, NY), 1986 (translator). Pierre Martory, Every Question but One, Groundwater Press/ InterFlo Editions, 1 1990 (translator). Pierre Reverdy, Selected Poems, Wake Forest University Press (Winston-Salem, NC), 1991 (translator, with others). Pierre Martory, The Landscape Is behind the Door, Sheep Meadow Press (Riverdale- on-Hudson, NY), 1994 (translator). John Ashbery in Conversation with Mark Ford, Dufour Editions (Chester Springs, PA), 2003. Pierre Martory, The Landscapist, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 2008 (translator).

In addition, there have been many privately printed, small press and ﬁne art editions, as well as volumes combining several of the above-listed titles.