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... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon. - John Ashbery Attribution: John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. “For John Clare.”

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John Ashbery

Titles by John Ashbery:

• Paradoxes and Oxymorons

eNotes:

• John Ashbery (Paradoxes and Oxymorons)

Encyclopedia:

• Ashbery, John (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Ashbery, John [Lawrence] (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• John Ashbery (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• John Ashbery (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• John Ashbery (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• Ashbery, John (Poetry Criticism)
• Ashbery, John (Lawrence) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ashbery, John (Vol. 125) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ashbery, John (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ashbery, John (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ashbery, John (Vol. 15) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ashbery, John (Vol. 13) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ashbery, John (Vol. 9) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ashbery, John (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Ashbery, John (Vol. 3) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• John Ashbery receives Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
• John Ashbery publishes Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
• John Ashbery publishes Some Trees
• John Ashbery is born