Ashbery, John
From Astro-Databank
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| Birthname | John Lawrence Ashbery | ||
| born on | 28 July 1927 at 09:30 (= 09:30 AM ) | ||
| Place | Rochester NY, USA, 43n09, 77w36 | ||
| Timezone | EDT h4w (is daylight saving time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   04°28'  02°26 Asc. 14°37'
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Biography
American poet and professor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry among other prestigious awards.
Ashbery has written over 20 books of poetry. His first collection, "Some Trees" won a Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956. His "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" (1975), received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. In addition to his poetry, he has written a book of art criticism, a collection of plays; and a novel, A Nest of Ninnies (1969). He is co-editor of the 1988 edition of "The Best American Poetry."
The first English-language poet to win the Grand Prix de Biennales Internationales de Poésie (Brussels) he has also received the Bollingen Prize among many other grants, fellowships and awards.
Ashbery graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1949. There he had been on the staff of the Harvard Advocate, a university literary magazine, and a member of the Signet Society. He had been heavily influenced by W. H. Auden and wrote his senior thesis on the poet. He subsequently received an M.A. from Columbia in 1951. Shortly afterwards he went to France on a Fulbright Fellowship and stayed there until 1965, serving as the art editor for the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune. Upon his return to the US he worked as an art critic for Newsweek and New York magazines. In addition to writing volumes of poetry, he served as editor of the Partisan Review until 1980. He was hired by Brooklyn College in the early 1970s; by the next decade he was employed by Bard College as the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature. From 2001-2003 he was appointed New York state's poet laureate. He has served as Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
Events
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1975 ("Self Portrait")
- Work : Prize 1975 (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry)
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1956 ("Some Trees")
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1988 (Co-editor of "Best American Poetry")
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1969 ("A Nest of Ninnies")
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes the book by David Lehman,"The Last Avant Garde: The Making of the New York School of
Poets" (NY: Doubleday, 1998); name, date and place of birth on page 120 &
Ascendant sign stated on page 162: "Ashbery (a Leo himself, with Virgo
rising)..." Time is approximate based on this statement
Categories
- Vocation : Education : Teacher (College professor)
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Notable : Awards : Pulitzer prize
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
