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Bibliographic code: Section N1
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Section N1 includes publications that contain miscellaneous passing references to Ashbery or his work. Sometimes surprising or amusing, these references to Ashbery, in various contexts ranging from literature to pop music, theology, and the American economy, appear in an array of publications including the New Yorker, the Village Voice and the New York Times, as well as the New York Post, Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, Men's Health, Spy, etc. While each individual reference may seem relatively insignificant, when considered cumulatively this body of material documents the widening sphere in which Ashbery is evoked as a useful point of reference; in a more general sense it indicates the degree to which poetry has a tangible presence in modern media and identifies various points at which poetry intersects with the collective popular consciousness.
When references to Ashbery appear in publications that also include work of greater bibliographic/archival significance (for example, those that also include a poem by or essay about Ashbery), that reference may not be cited separately in Section N1, but may only be mentioned in the notes field of the citation of the more important work.
Usually, only the first publication of Section N1 items, whether in books or periodicals, is given a complete citation. All known reprints usually are mentioned in the notes field of the citation.
For publications that make passing reference to Ashbery but also give information about the larger contexts that are relevant to his life and work (the New York Schools of poets and painters, the Paris art world of the 1960s, kitsch and colloquialism, etc.), see Section N3.
Examples of Section N1 material
New York Times Magazine, 1986-06-20 (newspaper supplement including a reference to Ashbery as a graduate of Harvard University)
Rolling Stone, 1996-11-28 (periodical including a reference to Ashbery as an influence on Stephen Malkmus of the band Pavement)
The Gay Metropolis 1940-1996, 1997 (book including a reference to Ashbery as a homosexual in New York City)
GQ, 1997-01-00 (periodical including a reference to Ashbery as the favorite poet of X-Files actor David Duchovny)
New York Times, 1997-12-07 (newspaper including a reference to Ashbery as an author whose books are frequently stolen from Morningside Heights bookstores)
Atlanta, 1999-10-00 (periodical including a quotation from Ashbery's poem "Some Trees" in the article "A Requiem for Suburbia")
Hudson Valley, 2001-03-00 (periodical including a reference to Ashbery as an opponent of the proposed Saint Lawrence Cement plant in Hudson, NY)
New York Post, 2001-09-27 (periodical including a reference to Ashbery as one example of an intelligent American)
New York Times Magazine, 2003-06-08 (Sunday newspaper supplement quoting Ashbery's poetry with regard to the state of the American economy)
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