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John Ashbery 1927–, American poet, b. Rochester, N.Y. Ashbery is one of the most acclaimed of recent American poets. His poems are experimental in style and syntax, strongly visual, and narrative but typically somewhat obscure. His collections include Some Trees (1956), Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975; Pulitzer Prize), Shadow Train (1981), A Wave (1984), April Galleons (1987), And the Stars Were Shining (1994), and Chinese Whispers (2002). He has also written three plays, The Compromise (1960), The Heroes (1960), and The Philosopher (1964), and coauthored a novel, A Nest of Ninnies (1969). Ashbery is also an art critic and edited the quarterly Art and Literature.
See study by D. Lehman, ed. (1980).
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