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  • Mark Ford’s obituary for JA in “The Guardian”

    September 4, 2017

    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 . . . “

    September 4, 2017

    (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]

    September 3, 2017

    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

    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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  • Tommy Dorsey, “The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else” (lyrics by Gus Kahn)

    September 1, 2017

       

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  • Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Anthony Frame of Glass Poetry Press

    September 1, 2017

    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…

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