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Erica Wright: On John Ashbery John Ashbery General Poet Criticism
Michael Miller: On John Ashbery John Ashbery General Poet Criticism
Ashbery's Poetry John Ashbery General Poet Criticism
Marjorie Perloff: "Still Time for Surprises" John Ashbery General Poet Criticism
Houses at Night: Erica Wright Interviews John Ashbery, February 8, 2008 John Ashbery Interview
John Ashbery Interview with J. P. O’Malley John Ashbery Interview
David Herd: On "They Dream Only of America" John Ashbery They Dream Only of America Poem Criticism Language poetry; signs; Andrew Ross; Bruce Andrews; conventional images of America; whitman; Mark Twain; Chandler; Stevens; dominate; symbol; Tennis Court Oath; cultural condition
A Note on E. C. Segar’s Thimble Theater: Examples from "Popeye," the Newspaper Graphic Serial John Ashbery Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape Poem Criticism relationships; narratives; Popeye; comic strips; subtle; adventure; comedy; mythology; cliffhanger
Lawrence Kramer: On "Syringa" John Ashbery Syringa Poem Criticism saxifrage; syrinx; loss; flowers
Leslie Wolf: On "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" John Ashbery Daffy Duck in Hollywood Poem Criticism sounds; difficult; John Donne; diction; connotation; Kooning; imagination; Harold Bloom
Jody Norton on "Paradoxes and Oxymorons" John Ashbery Paradoxes and Oxymorons Poem Criticism being form; intertextual identity; Romanticism; postmodernism; pathos; representationality; hexameter
Vernon Shetley: On "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" John Ashbery Daffy Duck in Hollywood Poem Criticism Juxtaposition; Tex Avery; Chuck Jones; Duck Amuck
James McCorkle: On "Syringa" John Ashbery Syringa Poem Criticism reinvention; myth; syrinx; renewal; comic-book figure
David Perkins: On Ashbery’s Predecessors: Stevens, Eliot and Pound John Ashbery General Poet Criticism
On the Value of Criticism; on Good Working Conditions for Poetry John Ashbery Interview
Alan Williamson: On "They Dream Only of America" John Ashbery They Dream Only of America Poem Criticism
John Shoptaw: On "The Dream Only of America" John Ashbery They Dream Only of America Poem Criticism
Andrew Ross: On "They Dream Only of America" John Ashbery They Dream Only of America Poem Criticism
Donald Revell: On "They Dream Only of America" John Ashbery They Dream Only of America Poem Criticism
David Lehman: On "They Dream Only of America" John Ashbery They Dream Only of America Poem Criticism
Hazel Smith: On "They Dream Only of America" John Ashbery They Dream Only of America Poem Criticism
Joseph M. Conte: On "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape" John Ashbery Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape Poem Criticism
Donald Revell: On "Syringa" John Ashbery Syringa Poem Criticism
John Shoptaw: On "Paradoxes and Oxymorons" John Ashbery Paradoxes and Oxymorons Poem Criticism
Andrew Epstein: On "Street Musicians" John Ashbery Street Musicians Poem Criticism