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Remembering John Ashbery: America is a fun country [by John Emil Vincent]
John Ashbery photo by Jill Krementz. I remember (vividly) John saying the words: “And the devil doesn’t give a shit about who you are / or if your name has an umlaut to it,”…
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Remembering John Ashbery: The Gift of The Unanticipated [by Archie Rand]
John Ashbery and Archie Rand signing their series “Flow Chart Illuminated” I was the kid mascot to Clem Greenberg’s troops. Although I was well treated their assumed trajectory was haughtily self-referential, if not comically oblivious.…
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John Ashbery, 1927-2017 (by Mitch Sisskind)
You do change into an insect but, Pshaw, you knew it would end this way. It ain’t even half bad. Most folks don’t Notice and them few that fears you Aren’t who you want…
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Mark Ford’s obituary for JA in “The Guardian”
from Mark Ford's obituary in The Guardian <<<Though in 1970 this must have struck many as far-fetched, by the end of the decade that saw the publication of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and…
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“I just don’t want to write the instruction manual . . . “
(Editor's Note: The first time I read John Ashbery's The Instruction Manual I was working for a large government bureaucracy. My desk, in a tiny cubicle, had no windows. Anyone who finds themselves in…
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Why typing John Ashbery’s “The Instruction Manual” is a good thing [by Dara Wier]
These, I suppose, two Candadians, have been watching me for many years. They're in a painting James Tate and I found on a trans-Canadian road trip. We don't know who they are, or why…
