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Among the books about Ashbery and his work are:

Bartczak, Kacper, In Search of Communication and Community: The Poetry of John Ashbery (series: Polish Studies in English Language and Literature), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2006.

Bloom, Harold, ed., John Ashbery (series: Modern Critical Views), New York, NY, Chelsea
House, 1985.

Cazé, Antoine, John Ashbery (series: Voix Américaines), Paris, France, Belin, 2000.

DuBois, Andrew, Ashbery's Forms of Attention, Tuscaloosa, AL, Univ. of Alabama Press, 2006.

Epstein, Andrew, Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. [On John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Amiri Baraka]

Fletcher, Angus, A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination, Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, 2004. [On John Ashbery, John Clare and Walt Whitman]

Ford, Mark, John Ashbery in Conversation with Mark Ford, London, United Kingdom, Between the Lines, 2003.

Herd, David, John Ashbery and American Poetry: Fit to Cope with Our Occasions, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester Univ. Press, 2000; New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

Kelly, Lionel, ed., Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Atlanta, GA, Rodopi, 2000.

Lehman, David, The Last Avant-Garde: the Poets of the New York School and the
Dynamics of Creativity, New York, NY, Doubleday, 1998.

Lehman, David, ed., Beyond Amazement: New Essays on John Ashbery, Ithaca, NY,
Cornell Univ. Press, 1980.

Schultz, Susan M., ed., The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry,
Tuscaloosa, AL, Univ. of Alabama Press, 1995.

Shapiro, David, John Ashbery: an Introduction to the Poetry, New York, NY, Columbia Univ.
Press, 1979.

Shoptaw, John, On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry, Cambridge, MA,
Harvard Univ. Press, 1994.

Vendler, Helen, Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery, Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ. Press, 2005.

Vincent, John Emil, John Ashbery and You: His Later Books, Athens, GA, Univ. of Georgia Press, 2007.

Researchers may browse sections L1 and L2 of the annotated, searchable online catalogue for additional critical texts.

For Ashbery's writings through 1975, the standard reference is:

Kermani, David K., John Ashbery, a Comprehensive Bibliography, including his
art criticism, and with selected notes from unpublished materials, New York, NY, Garland,
1976 (244 pp., illus.).

More recent bibliographic information may be found in the annotated, searchable online catalogue of the Ashbery Resource Center archive at http://www.flowchartfoundation.org/tc/.

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