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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…
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A Very Sad Day for American Letters: John Ashbery, July 28,1927 – September 3, 2017
John Ashbery, 2011 (c) Stephanie Paterik H Here is a link to David Orr's obituary for John in the New York Times.
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Anthony Frame of Glass Poetry Press
DD: How did Glass Poetry Press come into being? AF: Glass originally started as the journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry. It was edited by me and my wife, Holly Burnside, and we released…