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Poetry Recordings: John Ashbery

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Poetry Recordings: John Ashbery

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10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

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English Language Arts
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Click here to access the poetry recordings of John Ashbery as well as a brief biography of this author.

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A native of Rochester, New York, John Ashbery (b. 1927) is the prolific author of twenty three volumes of poetry, plus fiction, plays and criticism. He is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including The Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, all of which were garnered by his 1976 collection Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror. This was the first and remains the only time that one book has been awarded all three of the major American literary prizes. From this page, you can hear the voice of John Ashbery reading four of his poems, "For John Clare," "What is Poetry," "Just Walking Around," and "Local Legend."

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Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.

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