Ashbery, John

John Ashbery at Mount Lemmon, Tucson

November 4, 1980

Photographer

Lois Shelton

Readings from this author

September 12, 1990 - John Ashbery Colloquium

In response to questions from attendees, John Ashbery discusses cinema, wide-ranging responses to his two earliest books (Some Trees, 1956, and The Tennis Court Oath, 1962), and his appreciation for the poetry of Walt Whitman. He also considers movements in American poetry including modernism, postmodernism, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry, and new formalism.

September 12, 1990 - John Ashbery

John Ashbery reads poems that would later be collected in Hotel Lautréamont (1992), as well as an excerpt from Flow Chart (1991).

November 4, 1980 - John Ashbery

John Ashbery reads widely from his body of work, including poems from both Shadow Train and A Wave, which were published in the four years that followed this reading.

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