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Biographical and bibliographical information

• bio-critical-bibliographical note
  (Wikipedia)
  
  
• brief article with images
  (regarding Ashbery's receipt of the French Legion of Honor, with critical remarks on Ashbery's work by French ambassador Jean-David Levitte)
  (FrenchCulture.org)
  
  
• critical-biographical essay and selected primary and secondary bibliographies
  (Books & Writers)
  
  
• critical-biographical note on Ashbery
  (Between the Lines)
  
  
• critical-biographical note on Ashbery
  (links to several related resources, including a link to a transcript of the New York State Writers Award presentation ceremony, with participants New York State Poet Ashbery, New York State Author Kurt Vonnegut, and presenters Carlos Santiago, Don Faulkner and William Kennedy, and a link to an [Albany] Times-Union article on the 2001 New York State Writers awards)
  (New York State Writers Institute)
  
  
• extensive bibliography of works about Ashbery's Three Poems
  by Adam Talmage Monroe (John Ashbery's Three Poems: An Annotated Bibliography)
  

Pedagogical applications of Ashbery's work

• classroom approaches to Ashbery’s work
  (edited by David Bergman)
  (Heath Anthology of American Literature Online Instructor’s Guide)
  
  
• critical-biographical note
  (including questions about several Ashbery poems and links to related sites)
  (Norton Anthology of American Literature)
  
  
• critical-biographical note on Ashbery
  (with tips, techniques, questions and activities for teachers)
  (Annenberg / CPB)
  
  
• guide to an MA unit on New York City poetry and cinema
  by Dr. Daniel Kane (1950-1970, with assignments and questions, and with extensive primary and secondary bibliographies)
  (University of East Anglia)
  
  
• syllabus for the poetry course English 88
  (including a unit on the New York Poets and postmodernism, with links to course readings and supplementary materials, and including suggested topics for possible student papers on Ashbery's work and examples of students' creative and critical responses to Ashbery's work)
  (University of Pennsylvania / English 88 / Al Filreis)

Excerpts from and reviews of David Lehman's The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets

• Excerpts
  
              Jacket
  
              Random House
  
              Modern American Poetry
  
  
• Reviews
  
              Brian Blanchfield
              (Salon)
  
              Terence Diggory
              (Looksmart)
  
              Paul Hoover
              (Jacket)
  
              John Schulman
              (Gazette)
  
              John Simon
              (New Criterion)
  
              David Yezzi
              (University of Pennsylvania / English 88 / Al Filreis)

Miscellaneous critical responses to Ashbery's work

• "A Glint of Bullion Hefted"
  critical essay / review of Where Shall I Wander by James Rother
  (Contemporary Poetry Review)
  
  
• "Across the Millennium: The Persistence of John Ashbery"
  critical essay by Fred Moramarco
  (Looksmart)
  
  
• "After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America"
  by Emily Warn (review of Vernon Shetley's critical monograph on Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, including an extended discussion of Shetley's arguments about Ashbery's work)
  (Looksmart)
  
  
• "'And Ut pictura poesis Is Her Name': John Ashbery, the Plastic Arts, and the Avant-Garde"
  critical essay by David Sweet
  (Looksmart)
  
  
• article on the poets-and-painters panel at the 92nd Street Y, involving Ashbery, Jane Freilicher, Kenneth Koch, Larry Rivers and Ron Padgett
  by Raphael Rubinstein
  (Looksmart)
  
  
• "Ashbery's 'Description of a Masque': Radical Interart Transfer across History" abstract of critical essay by Tamar Yacobi
  (Poetics Today)
  
  
• "The Cannon"
  by Leslie Scalapino (quotes at length from Alexander Theroux's defense of his review of Ashbery's work in the Los Angeles Times)
  (Looksmart)
  
  
• "Comparing [William] Bronk and John Ashbery"
  critical essay by Susan Schultz (Postmodern Culture or Modern American Poetry)
  
  
• critical essay
  by Daniel Kane (with a primary bibliography)
  (Literary Encyclopedia)
  
  
• critical essays on Ashbery's poem "Daffy Duck in Hollywood"
  by Leslie Wolf and Vernon Shetley (excerpts)
  (Modern American Poetry)
  
  
• critical essay on Ashbery's poem "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape"
  by Joseph M. Conte (with background information about the sestina form and about the Popeye comic strip) (excerpts)
  (Modern American Poetry)
  
  
• critical essays on Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons"
  by John Shoptaw and Jody Norton (excerpts)
  (Modern American Poetry)
  
  
• critical essays on Ashbery's poem "Syringa"
  by Lawrence Kramer, James McCorkle and Donald Revell (excerpts)
  (Modern American Poetry)
  
  
• critical essays on Ashbery's poem "'They Dream Only of America'"
  by Alan Williamson, John Shoptaw, Andrew Ross, Donald Revell, David Lehman, David Herd and Hazel Smith (excerpts)
  (Modern American Poetry)
  
  
• critical note on Ashbery
  by Terrence Johnson
  (glbtq)
  
  
• critical overview of Ashbery's work
  (Stranger)
  
  
• critical responses to poems from April Galleons
  by Evan Stephens (with the full texts of "A Mood of Quiet Beauty," "Insane Decisions" and "Some Money")
  (Evan Stephens)
  
  
• David Shapiro, interviewed by John Tranter
  (discusses Ashbery and the New York School)
  (Jacket)
  
  
• "Disseminating 'circumference': The Diachronic Presence of [Emily] Dickinson in John Ashbery's 'Clepsydra'"
  critical essay by Annette Gilson
  (Looksmart)
  
  
• excerpt from Moramarco's Containing Multitudes: Poetry in the United States Since 1950
  (with a lengthy section exclusively about Ashbery)
  (San Diego State University / Fred Moramarco)
  
  
• "Gathered, Not Made: A Brief History of Appropriative Writing"
  critical essay by Raphael Rubinstein (contains Rubinstein's cento "Courtesy of Ashbery and Auden" and information on Ashbery's poems "Europe" and "The Dong with the Luminous Nose")
  (Ubuweb)
  
  
• "The Guggenheim Museum and ‘Litany' by John Ashbery; or a Multidimensional Set of Radically Discontinuous Realities"
  critical essay by Richard Sennett
  (Lichtensteiger.de)
  
  
• "Houses of Poetry After Ashbery: The Poetry of Ann Lauterbach and Donald Revell"
  critical essay by Susan Schultz
  (Virginia Quarterly Review)
  
  
• "John Ashbery's Revision of the Post- Romantic Quest: Meaning, Evasion, and Allusion in 'Grand Galop'"
  critical essay by Frank J. Lepkowski
  (Looksmart)
  
  
• "Lead in the Looking Glass: A Lacanian Approach to John Ashbery's 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'"
  critical essay by Jack Bedell
  (Lacan Dot Com)
  
  
• "Many Happy Returns: The Poetry of John Ashbery"
  by Richard Jackson
  (Ploughshares)
  
  
• "Normalizing John Ashbery"
  critical essay by Marjorie Perloff (this essay is also available at the Jacket website)
  (Electronic Poetry Center / University of Buffalo)
  
  
• "Now Face to Face: Ashbery's 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'"
  critical essay by Heidi Czerwiec Blitch (PDF file)
  (University of Utah Humanities Graduate Conference)
  
  
• "On Ashbery's Predecessors: Stevens, Eliot and Pound"
  critical essay by David Perkins (excerpt)
  (Modern American Poetry)
  
  
• "Reports of Looting and Insane Buggery Behind Altars: John Ashbery's Queer Politics"
  critical essay by John Vincent
  (Looksmart)
  
  
• review of David Herd’s John Ashbery and American Poetry
  by Marjorie Perloff
  (Electronic Poetry Center / University of Buffalo)
  
  
• review of David Herd's John Ashbery and American Poetry
  by Robert Potts
  (Guardian)
  
  
• review of The New York Poets: An Anthology (edited by Mark Ford)
  by Charles Bainbridge
  (Guardian)
  
  
• review of the online journal Jacket (including the special Ashbery issue)
  by Martin Earl
  (Web Del Sol / Cyber Rambler)
  
  
• "'The Tension is in the Concept': John Ashbery's Surrealism"
  critical essay by Ernesto Suárez-Toste
  (Looksmart)
  
  
• The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry
  (table of contents)
  introduction by editor Susan M. Schultz and afterword by poet Charles Bernstein.
  (Electronic Poetry Center / University of Buffalo)
  
  
• "We Are Without Any Areness: Polyphony in the Poetry of John Ashbery"
  critical essay by Grzegorz Kosz, Andrew Zawacki and Gertrud Szamosi
  (Salzburg Seminar)
  
  
• "'Whispers Out of Time': The Syntax of Being in the Poetry of John Ashbery" critical essay by Jody Norton
  (Looksmart)
  
  
• "Yada, Yada, Yada for the Ages: John Ashbery and the New American Sublime"
  critical essay by James Rother
  (Contemporary Poetry Review)
  
  
  
  

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