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The ARC's online resources pages are works-in-progress. General information about the contents of these pages and the ARC's methodology will be added shortly.
The Ashbery Resource Center has a particular interest in the items listed in the
Ashberiana section of the online resources because they illuminate the manner in
which Ashbery's work can be understood as a locus of creative intersections
between art forms. Because many of the works that illustrate these intersections
are unpublished, published in limited editions, or are little-known, the
resources available online, listed below, are somewhat limited. Therefore, the
ARC has supplemented the online resources for Ashberiana with a list of
representative materials housed in the archive of the ARC, in order more fully
convey the diversity of materials that exist. Complete citations for these and many other archival items can be found in the online searchable catalogue of the archive. Please click here to view the supplemental archival material for the Ashberiana online resources.
Amazon
- audio files from Roger Reynolds' composition Whispers Out of Time, based on Ashbery's poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"
Amazon
- audio files from each movement of Robin Holloway's "Violin Concerto, Opus 70," a work dedicated to Ashbery and influenced both by Ashbery's poetry and his home in Hudson, NY
American Poetry Review
- photographic portraits of Ashbery
Amica Library
- untitled portrait by Alex Katz, from the Arion Press edition of Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Amica Library
- portrait of Ashbery by Elaine de Kooning, from the Arion Press edition of Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Andante
- Daniel Felsenfeld's review of the "Celebrating John Ashbery" musical program in the Works & Process series at the Guggenheim Museum, which featured five composers' settings of five different Ashbery poems
Ars Electronica
- critical overview of James Dashow's "Second Voyage," a musical setting of Ashbery's poem "Voyage in the Blue"
- text of Ashbery's poem "Voyage in the Blue"
ARTISTdirect
- Brian Olewnick's brief review of an audio CD by Alvin Lucier that includes Lucier's "Theme," based on a poem by Ashbery
Arts Connected: ArtsNet Minnesota
- image of Siah Armajani’s Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge, which incorporates an untitled poem [“And now I cannot remember how I would”] by Ashbery in its design
- text of the poem
- an audio file of Ashbery reading the poem
Art Song Catalog
- Mark J. Scearce's song cycle "Four Quotations" sets four poems by Ashbery for voice, violin, viola and cello: "The Cathedral Is," "I Had Thought Things Were Going Along Well," "Out over the Bay," and "We Were on the Terrace Drinking Gin and Tonics"
Australia – Poetry International Web
- Michael Farrell's poem "John Ashbery Impersonator"
Blaffer Gallery / University of Houston
- brief summary of the Jane Hammond - John Ashbery collaboration
- images of four of Hammond's paintings from the collaboration
Bold Type
- several poems by David Lehman include references to Ashbery
Bomb Magazine
- brief introduction to the Jane Hammond – John Ashbery collaboration by David Lehman
- image of Hammond's painting Sore Models # 2
- Lehman's poem inspired by the collaboration, "Do Husbands Matter?"
Boosey & Hawkes
- composer Robin Holloway's essay on his "Violin Concerto, Opus 70," a work dedicated to Ashbery and influenced both by Ashbery's poetry and his home in Hudson, NY
Centro di Poesia Contemporanea
- scroll down to find Jamie McKendrick's poem "The One-Star," which concludes with several verses about being mistaken for Ashbery
- Italian translation of McKendrick's poem
Computer Music Journal
- review by Thomas Licata of the CD Music / Text, which includes James Dashow's "Second Voyage," a setting of Ashbery's poem "Voyage in the Blue"
- remarks by Dashow about the composition
Cultureport / Hard Press
- Raphael Rubinstein's poem "Courtesy of Ashbery and Auden"
Da Camera of Houston
- Ashberyana: works by six composers based on various poems by Ashbery
Database of Recorded American Music
- composer Richard Wilson's brief comments about his choral work Poor Warren , which sets four poems by Ashbery, "Frontispiece," "Crazy Weather," "Just Walking Around," and "Qualm"
- text of the poems (scroll down)
Editions Balance
- the fine art edition Closer pairs Ashbery's poem of the same title with woodcuts by Bodo Korsig
ElectroCD.com
- John Duesenberry's electronic music composition "WaveBreak" takes its title from lines in Ashbery's poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"
Electronic Poetry Center / University of Buffalo
- Charles Bernstein's poetic afterword to the collection of critical essays The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry: “The Influence of Kinship Patterns upon Perception of an Ambiguous Stimulus”
- links to the table of contents for the collection, and to the introduction by editor Susan M. Schultz
Ensemble Sospeso
- biographical-critical note with brief information on a new recording of composer Elliott Carter's setting of Ashbery's poem "Syringa"
- excerpts from reviews of Ashbery's Girls on the Run
Experimental Art Foundation
- Tony Towle's poem "Thoughts at Frank O'Hara's City Poet Party, 6/9/93" includes a reference to Ashbery
Faux Press
- Ted Berrigan's poem "Eureka!," which includes references to Ashbery, is contained within Bob Perelman's critical text
Film-Makers' Cooperative Online Catalog
- information about Rudy Burckhardt's films Indelible, Inedible; Untilted; and The Nude Pond, inspired by poems by Ashbery; and about Burkhardt's Mounting Tension, in which Ashbery acted a role
Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
- portrait of Ashbery by Larry Rivers, from the Arion Press edition of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Jacket
- Robert Duncan's poem "At the Poetry Conference: Berkeley (After the New York Style)" includes references to Ashbery
Jacket
- Tony Towle's poem "Addenda," which includes a reference to Ashbery, appears in full within Ken Bolton's review of Towle's New and Collected Poems
- extended discussion of the work of Ashbery and the New York School
Jacket
- John Tranter's parodic movie poster The Ern Malley Story includes spoof roles for Ashbery as Chatterton, and for the Three Stooges as the New York School of Poets
Jacket
- an excerpt from John Tranter's comic strip Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor includes a reference to Ashbery
Jim Carroll Website
- a line by Ashbery is identified as the source of the title of Jim Carroll's prose text "The Academy of the Future Is Opening Its Doors"
Library of Congress: I Hear America Singing: The Roger Reynolds Collection
- scroll down to find information about composer Roger Reynolds' song cycle last things, i think, to think about, for which Ashbery wrote the poem "Debit Night"
- information about Reynolds' composition for string orchestra, Whispers Out of Time, written in response to Ashbery's poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"
- reproduction of a page from the score for Reynolds' Whispers Out of Time
Looksmart
- review of the Jane Hammond – John Ashbery collaboration by David Carrier
Looksmart
- review of the Jane Hammond – John Ashbery collaboration by Carey Lovelace
Looksmart
- review of the Jane Hammond – John Ashbery collaboration by Judith E. Stein
Looksmart
- Reva Wolf's critical essay "Collaboration as Social Exchange – Photographs and their Social Significance" discusses Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga's use of Ashbery's photograph and poetry in their book Screen Tests / A Diary (1967)
Maria Ferrante
- review of Scott Wakefield's composition "Wakefield Doubles" by David Weiniger (Wakefield's song cycle was originally called "Crazy Weather" after Ashbery's poem of the same title)
Music Web
- Hubert Culot's brief review of Robin Holloway's "Violin Concerto, Opus 70," a work dedicated to Ashbery and influenced both by Ashbery's poetry and his home in Hudson, NY
Nest
- an excerpt from Ashbery and artist Archie Rand's collaboration Heavenly Days [Illuminated], in which Archie Rand painted panels depicting various spaces and objects in Ashbery's home in Hudson, NY, inspired by Ashbery's poem "Heavenly Days," after which Ashbery chose lines from that poem to accompany individual panels
Ode to Ashbery
- Gennarose Pope’s poem “An Ode to Ashbery”
- eighteen poems by Ashbery
- link to a page for fellow New York School member Kenneth Koch
Opus 40 / Mole Index
- portrait of Ashbery by Tad Richards
- excerpt from Ashbery's poem "What Is Poetry"
Owl Press
- Bill Berkson and Frank O'Hara's text "Reverdy" was "written for the French of John Ashbery, Paris, 1961"
PoetryNet
- Jeffrey Skinner's poem "John Ashbery"
Poet's Press
- scroll down to read Annette Hayn's poem "Unlikely Marriage," which includes references to Ashbery
Spaightwood Galleries
- scroll down to see Larry Rivers' portrait of Ashbery, John Ashbery Working
Spaightwood Galleries
- self-portrait by Jim Dine, from the Arion Press edition of Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Spaightwood Galleries
- lithograph by Willem de Kooning, from the Arion Press edition of Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Vert
- two poetic parodies / pastiches of Ashbery, "Behind the Meatball Curtain" and "Re: Dear John Ashbery," by Andrew Felsinger and Kent Johnson, with discussion of the phenomenon of the literary fraud
Village Voice
- Rob Brezsny's weekly horoscope incorporates Ashbery's poem "The History of My Life" and Fred Moramarco's critical discussion of Ashbery's work into the predictions for Pisces
Zoo Press
- Randall Mann's poem "Poem Beginning with a Line by John Ashbery"
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