Poetry Magazine
Uptick
Source: Poetry (March 2009).
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
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Time & Brevity, Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets, Language & Linguistics
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD New York School
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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