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CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
The following essay by NBCC board member and Balakian award winner Maureen N. McLane on John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," winner of the first NBCC Award in Poetry in 1975, is part of the NBCC's "In Retrospect" series on Critical Mass, in which critics and writers revisit NBCC award winners and finalists from previous years. More than thirty years have passed since Ashbery...
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
They know so much more, and so much less, “innocent details” and other. It was time to put up or shut up. Claymation is so over, the king thought. The watercolor virus sidetracked tens. Something tells me you’ll be reading this on a train stumbling through rural Georgia, wiping sleep . . .
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Bookninja (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
John Ashbery, one of my heroes, is making his debut, at 81, as a visual artist with a series of collage works. Hmm, sounds familiar. Of the hundreds of openings in the city this fall, this one will be particularly distinctive. Because the artist is the pre-eminent American poet John Ashbery, making his solo debut as [...]
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Emdashes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Benjamin Chambers writes: Boy, the literary news has just been piling up. Here's a quick taste: * The Nobel prizes were just handed out, and American poets got skunked—as usual, according to David Orr in the Times . According to Orr, New Yorker poets John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich both shoulda been contendas . (Larissa MacFarquhar did a profile on Ashbery in the November 7, 2005...
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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... I think: On Ashbery, Language, and Meaning . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I think John Ashbery writes too many poems - or at least publishes more than he should. But there are some very good poems in Chinese Whispers , to name just one of his collections.
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Nomadics (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
So the Nobel this year goes to French novelist J.M.G. Le Clézio. Not a bad choice, though not a very inspired one either. (My secret hopes were Danish poet Inger Christensen, Syrian poet Adonis, John Ashbery from just down the road a few miles, Lebanese poet Salah Stétié or Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo.) Here is the New York Times article on Le Clézio. Few of his books have been translated...
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Althouse (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... for much. Although I pretended differently the year Naipaul won.Beth, what do you think? said... John Ashbery would be a great choice for a Nobel Prize in Literature. So would Cormac McCarthy or Don Delillo. Since Walt Whitman, we've always had some outstanding American literature. This is just nonsense. said... The the "big dialogue of literature"?Man, those Swedes are really funny...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
At 81, the poet John Ashbery is making his solo debut as professional artist with a modest but polished exhibition of two dozen small collages at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York.
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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
At 81, John Ashbery still grooves, moves, and proves the media are the messages , especially when it comes to scissors and paste.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
The pre-eminent American poet John Ashbery makes his solo debut as professional artist at 81, with a modest but polished exhibition of two dozen small collages.
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Bryan Appleyard (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
An irritating afternoon made messy by PRs and television producers was suddenly redeemed by the receipt of a book - The Landscapist by Pierre Martory, translated by John Ashbery. The book fell open at a poem called The Return of the Birds, the second half of which I now quote to redeem all your afternoons. For copyright purposes I claim fair use, abject admiration and gratitude.'And a...
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CruelestMonth.com (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
A couple of interesting upcoming collections: John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 (Library of America #187) by John Ashbery (Hardcover - Oct 2, 2008) The first volume of a two volume collected series. This is the first time the Library of...
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CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Louise Gluck , whose "The Triumph of Achilles" (1985) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry,has been awarded the $100,000 Wallace Stevens from the Academy of American Poets . Previous recipients include W. S. Merwin, James Tate, Adrienne Rich, A. R. Ammons, Frank Bidart, John Ashbery, Richard Wilbur, Mark Strand, Gerald Stern, Michael Palmer, and Charles Simic. Brigit...
