This Room
John Ashbery, “This Room” from Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems. Copyright © 2007 by John Ashbery. Reprinted with the permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of the author.
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Poet John Ashbery b. 1927
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD New York School
Subjects Relationships, Love, Activities, Eating & Drinking
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
John Ashbery is recognized as one of the greatest twentieth-century American poets. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Griffin International Award, and a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. Ashbery's poetry challenges its readers to discard all presumptions about the aims, themes, . . .
Poems by John Ashbery
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SUBJECT Relationships, Love, Activities, Eating & Drinking
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD New York School
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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