John Ashbery

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Gender	Male
Death	7 years ago
Date of birth	July 28,1927
Zodiac sign	Leo
Born	Rochester
	New York
	United States
Date of died	September 3,2017
Died	Hudson
	New York
	United States
Movies/Shows	The Forbidden Room
	Seances
	Mounting Tension
	Ostensibly
Periods	1949–2017
Spouse	David K. Kermani
	David Kermani
Parents	Chester Frederick Ashbery
	Helen Lawrence
Poems	Flow Chart
	At North Farm
	The Skaters
	Girls on the Run
	Chinese Whispers
Books	Some Trees
	Flow Chart
	Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
	The Tennis Court Oath
Influences	Wallace Stevens
	W. H. Auden
	Marianne Moore
	Giorgio de Chirico
	Jasper Johns
	John Clare
	Raymond Roussel
Education	Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Date of Reg.	2019-02-13 19:46:13
Date of Upd.	2023-11-09 17:42:50
ID	413592

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Bollingen Prize
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
National Book Award for Poetry
MacArthur Fellowship
Wallace Stevens Award
Robert Frost Medal
National Humanities Medal
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry
Ambassador Book Award for Lifetime Achievement

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John Ashbery Life story

John Lawrence Ashbery was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age."