John Ashbery - A Wordly Country PDF

JOHN ASHBERY was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927.

He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and traveled as

a Fulbright Scholar to France in 1955. Best known as a poet, he

has published more than twenty collections, most recently

Where Shall I Wander (Ecco, 2005). His Self-Portrait in a Convex

Mirror won the three major American prizes—the Pulitzer, the

National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle

Award—and an early book, Some Trees, was selected by W. H.

Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He served as executive

editor of Art News and as the art critic for New York magazine and

Newsweek. A member of the American Academy of Arts and

Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was

a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1988 to

1999. The winner of many prizes and awards, both nationally

and internationally, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships

and was a MacArthur Fellow from 1985 through 1990. His work

has been translated into more than twenty languages. Since 1990

he has been the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages

and Literature at Bard College. He lives in New York.