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Below you will find a sampling of citations for Ashberiana items housed in the ARC archive. These archival citations supplement the online resources we have compiled for the Ashberiana category. The citations we have chosen draw special attention to Ashbery's influence on filmmakers, composers, writers, visual artists, etc. For more complete information about these resources, or to find more like them, please visit the online searchable catalogue of the Ashbery Resource Center. (To make searching more efficient, please note the bibliographic codes for each category: Film, K1; Music, K2; Literature, K3; Theater, K4; Visual Art, K5.)


● Siah Armajani's Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge, which incorporates Ashbery's untitled poem ('And now I cannot remember how I would have had it.') into its architecture

● Saul Bellow's "What Kind of Day Did You Have?," a story that makes reference to Ashbery

● Charles Bernstein's "The Influence of Kinship Patterns upon Perception of an Ambiguous Stimulus," a poem about Ashbery

● Ted Berrigan's "Invention," a poem written "from" or "into" Ashbery's translations of poems by Pierre Reverdy

● Jim Brodey's "Dream," a poem about Ashbery

● Rudy Burckhardt's Untilted, a film that incorporates lines from Ashbery's poem of the same title

● Elliott Carter's "Syringa," a musical work based on Ashbery's poem of the same title

● Douglas Crase's "Pultneyville," a poem dedicated to Ashbery, which discusses the town of Pultneyville, NY, where Ashbery spent many summers in his childhood and adolescence

● Harlan Dangerfield's fictitious interview with Ashbery

● James Dashow's "Second Voyage, a musical work based on Ashbery's poem "Voyage in the Blue"

● Elaine de Kooning's portrait of Ashbery

● Peter Gizzi's "Nones," a poem dedicated to Ashbery

● Robin Holloway's "Violin Concerto, Op. 70," a musical work sketched out at the piano in the music room of Ashbery's Hudson home, which "sets" both Rainer Maria Rilke's poem cycle "Les fenêtres" ("The Windows") and the Tiffany-style windows of Ashbery's house

● David Hirson's Wrong Mountain, a theatrical work in which "John Ashbery" is a character

● Peter Hujar's photograph of Ashbery, from Hujar's Portraits in Life and Death series

● Alex Katz's portrait of Ashbery

● Wesley Kimler's exhibition April Galleons and Broken Chairs, a series of paintings inspired by Ashbery's April Galleons

● R.B. Kitaj's "Houseboat Days," a painting created for Ashbery's poetry collection of the same title

● Jerzy Kosinski's Being There, a novel inspired by Ashbery's poem "Some Trees"

● Ann Lauterbach's If in Time, a poetry collection dedicated to Ashbery, Kenward Elsmslie and Barbara Guest

● Gerard Malanga's photograph of Ashbery and Ted Berrigan

● Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of Ashbery

● John McQueen's "Untitled # 81," a woven sculpture based on Ashbery's Three Poems

● Dave Morice's "Some Trees," a comic strip based on Ashbery's poem of the same title

● Frank O'Hara and Larry Rivers' Surprising J.A., a theatrical work for which Ashbery's persona and / or poetry was the eponymous inspiration

● Fairfield Porter's portrait of Ashbery

● Archie Rand and Ashbery's "Heavenly Days [Illuminated]," a series of painted panels depicting objects and places in Ashbery's home and inspired by Ashbery's poem "Heavenly Days" each of which was paired by Ashbery with lines or line fragments from the poem

● Roger Reynolds' "Whispers Out of Time," a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical work based on Ashbery's poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"

● Larry Rivers' "Poem and Portrait of John Ashbery," a painting incorporating Ashbery's poem "Pyrography" with Rivers' portrait of Ashbery

● Ned Rorem's "Another Sleep," a musical work based on texts including Ashbery's poems "This Room" and "At North Farm"

● Mark Strand's "XXVIII," a poem that incorporates lines from Ashbery's work

● Peter Straub's The Throat, a novel in which a character buys and reads Ashbery's book-length poem Flow Chart

● Richard Wilson's "Poor Warren," a musical work based on Ashbery's poems "Frontispiece," "Crazy Weather," "Just Walking Around" and "Qualm"

● WNYC concert at Lincoln Center, 1994-06-13, for which the composers Sergio Cervetti, Morton Gould, John Corigliano, Anthony Davis, Milton Babbitt, Peter Shickele, Robin Holcomb, Philip Glass, Raphael Mostel, Tania León, Joan Tower and Laurie Anderson were commissioned to create musical works based on Ashbery's poem "No Longer Very Clear"

● Caveh Zahedi's In the Bathtub of the World, a film that takes its title and epigraph from Ashbery's poem "Thoughts of a Young Girl" and incorporates footage of Ashbery reading his poem "This Room"

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