JohnAshbery

John Ashbery

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-has been “recognized as a worthy successor to the romantics”

-as a “protolanguage poet”

-“produces memorable representations”

- style goes off idea that the current world is “so strange, absurd and heavily sedimented with mediaspeak and characterized by ‘hyperreal’” so that the poet cannot represent “consistent or coherent accounts of subjectivity and individual experience”

-According to Ashbery his poetry presents the reader with “an open field of narrative possibilities”

-after living in Paris for ten years he “cast a cold eye on the neosymbolism of his American contemporaries, their mania for what he called ‘over-interpretation’”

-“language on the point of revealing its secret without ever actually doing so”

-“connections are as likely to be phonemic or graphemic as referential”

Also known as Jonas Berry, John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York on July 28, 1927,  as the son of a farmer and biology teacher. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1949 from Harvard University and his masters in 1951 from Columbia University. He was chancellor from 1988-89 of the Academy of American Poets and is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He’s worked as a writer, critic and editor.

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