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Memories of You: John Ashbery [by DL]
<<<Waking skies at sunriseEvery sunset tooSeems to be bringing meMemories of you. . .>>> JA's love of popular song has not been sufficiently documented. He adored the Gershwins' "Love Walked In," for example.…
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Fragments 90-102 from Selected Squibs [by Alan Ziegler]
In the freshman dining hall, a maraschino cherry tops most desserts. We save the cherry for last and ritually eat it simultaneously. One night, we see four industrial sized cans of maraschino cherries stacked…
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Remembering John Ashbery: “There is nothing that gives a more thrilling sense of Ashbery at work.” [by Charles Bernstein]
John Ashbery and Charles Bernstein in 2008. Photo (c) Susan Bee, Several years ago, David Kermani proposed that I work with John Ashbery and him on a big manuscript-focused digital project. David and I…
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À la mémoire de John Ashbery [par Olivier Brossard]
Mort de John Ashbery, poète américainLE MONDE | 05.09.2017 à 11h31 • Mis à jour le 05.09.2017 à 12h26 | Par Olivier Brossard (maître de conférence à l'université Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée) Figure majeure des lettres américaines, l’écrivain s’est éteint dimanche 3 septembre, à 90 ans.…
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Remembering John Ashbery: These small moments have been monumental [by John Gallaher]
My meetings with and correspondence with John Ashbery was brief, so much briefer than I wished. But these small moments have been monumental to me. I’ve nothing to add to the Ashbery story that people…
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Remembering John Ashbery: “The Improvement” [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
(Ed note: In the aftermath of John Ashbery's death, I've been scrolling through our archive of John-related posts. We've had hundreds! I discovered this one from 2011 and it has inspired me to attempt…
