John Ashbery

Bibliography

Other info : Career

• Turandot and Other Poems (chapbook), Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953
• Some Trees (poems), foreword by W. H. Auden, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1956, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ), 1978.
• The Poems, Tiber Press (New York, NY), 1960.
• The Tennis Court Oath (poems), Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1962.
• Rivers and Mountains (poems), Holt (New York, NY), 1966.
• Selected Poems, J. Cape (London, England), 1967.
• Sunrise in Suburbia, Phoenix Bookshop (New York, NY), 1968.
• Three Madrigals, Poet’s Press, 1969.
• (With James Schuyler) A Nest of Ninnies (novel), Dutton (New York, NY), 1969.
• Fragment (poem; also see below), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1969.
• Evening in the Country, Spanish Main Press, 1970.
• The Double Dream of Spring (includes “Fragment,” originally published in book form), Dutton (New York, NY), 1970.
• The New Spirit, Adventures in Poetry, 1970.
• (With Lee Hawood and Tom Raworth) Penguin Modern Poets 19, Penguin (New York, NY), 1971.
• Three Poems, Viking (New York, NY), 1972.
• The Serious Doll, privately printed, 1975.
• (With Joe Brainard) The Vermont Notebook (poems), Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 1975, reprinted, Granary Books (Calais, VT), 2001.
• Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (poems), Viking (New York, NY), 1975.
• Houseboat Days (poems), Viking (New York, NY), 1977, reprinted, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1999.
• As We Know (poems), Viking (New York, NY), 1979.
• Shadow Train: Fifty Lyrics, Viking (New York, NY), 1981.
• (With others) R. B. Kitaj: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), 1981.
• (With others) Apparitions (poems), Lord John Press (Northridge, CA), 1981.
• Fairfield Porter: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction, New York Graphic Society (New York, NY), 1983.
• A Wave (poems), Viking (New York, NY), 1984.
• Selected Poems, Viking (New York, NY), 1985.
• April Galleons, Penguin (New York, NY), 1987.
• The Ice Storm, Hanuman Books, 1987.
• Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles, 1957-1987 (art criticism), edited by David Bergman, Knopf (New York, NY), 1989.
• Three Poems (different text than 1972 volume with same title), Ecco Press (New York, NY), 1989.
• Haibun, illustrations by Judith Shea, Collectif Génération (Colombes, France), 1990.
• Flow Chart (poem), Knopf (New York, NY), 1991.
• Hotel Lautreamont, Knopf (New York, NY), 1992.
• Three Books (poems), Penguin (New York, NY), 1993.
• And the Stars Were Shining, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1994.
• Can You Hear, Bird, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1995.
• Pistils (essays), photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, Random House (New York, NY), 1996.
• Wakefulness, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1998.
• The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ), 1998.
• Girls on the Run, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1999.
• Other Traditions: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2000.
• Your Name Here: Poems, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2000.
• As Umbrellas Follow Rain, Qua Books (Lennox, MA), 2001.
• Chinese Whispers: Poems, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2002.
• Where Shall I Wander?, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2005.
• Selected Prose, edited by Eugene Richie, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2005.
• A Worldly Country, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 2007.
• Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, Ecco Press (New York, NY), 2007.
• John Ashbery: Collected Poems, 1956-1987, Library of America, No. 187 (New York, NY), 2008

Works have been anthologized in New American Poetry, 1945-1960, Grove (New York, NY), 1960; A Controversy of Poets, edited by Paris Leary and Robert Kelly, Doubleday/Anchor (New York, NY), 1964; L’Avant-Garde aujourd’hui, [Brussels, Belgium], 1965; Anthology of New York Poets, Random House (New York, NY), 1969; The Voice That Is Great within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, Bantam (New York, NY), 1970; Contemporary American Poetry, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1971; Fifty Modern American and British Poets, 1920-1970, edited by Louis Untermeyer, McKay (New York, NY), 1973; and Shake the Kaleidoscope: A New Anthology of Modern Poetry, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1973.

Contributor of poetry to periodicals, including New York Review of Books, Partisan Review, Harper’s, and New Yorker; contributor of art criticism to periodicals, including Art International and Aujourd’hui; contributor of literary criticism to New York Review of Books, Saturday Review, Poetry, Bizarre (Paris, France), and other periodicals.

 

PLAYS

• The Heroes (one-act; also see below; produced Off-Broadway, 1952; produced in London, England, 1982), in Artists’ Theater, edited by Herbert Machiz, Grove (New York, NY), 1969.
• The Compromise (three-act; also see below; produced in Cambridge, MA, at the Poet’s Theater, 1956), in The Hasty Papers, Alfred Leslie, 1960.
• The Philosopher (one-act; also see below), in Art and Literature, number 2, 1964.
• Three Plays (contains The Heroes, The Compromise, and The Philosopher), Z Press (Calais, VT), 1978.

EDITOR

• (With others) The American Literary Anthology, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1968.
• (With Thomas B. Hess) Light, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1969.
• (With Thomas B. Hess) Painters Painting, Newsweek (New York, NY), 1971.
• (With Thomas B. Hess) Art of the Grand Eccentrics, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1971.
• (With Thomas B. Hess) Avant-Garde Art, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1971.
• Penguin Modern Poets 24: Ken Ward Elmslie, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, Penguin (New York, NY), 1974.
• Richard F. Sknow, The Funny Place, O’Hara (Chicago, IL), 1975.
• Bruce Marcus, Muck Arbour, O’Hara (Chicago, IL), 1975.
• (Translator from the French) Max Jacob, The Dice Cup: Selected Prose Poems, SUN (New York, NY), 1979.
• (With David Lehman) The Best American Poetry, 1988, Scribner (New York, NY), 1989.

Coeditor, One Fourteen, 1952-53.

OTHER

• (Translator) Jean-Jacques Mayoux, Melville, Grove (New York, NY), 1960.
• (Translator, as Jonas Berry, with Lawrence G. Blochman) Murder in Montmartre, Dell (New York, NY), 1960.
• (Translator, as Jonas Berry, with Lawrence G. Blochman) Genevieve Manceron, The Deadlier Sex, Dell (New York, NY), 1961.
• (Translator) Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Fantomas, Morrow (New York, NY), 1986.
• (Translator) Pierre Martory, Every Question but One, Groundwater Press/ InterFlo Editions, 1990.
• (Translator, with others) Pierre Reverdy, Selected Poems, Wake Forest University Press (Winston-Salem, NC), 1991.
• (Translator) Pierre Martory, The Landscape Is behind the Door, Sheep Meadow Press (Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY), 1994.
• John Ashbery in Conversation with Mark Ford, Dufour Editions (Chester Springs, PA), 2003.
• (Translator) Pierre Martory, The Landscapist, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 2008.

Collaborator with Joe Brainard on C Comic Books; collaborator with Elliott Carter on musical setting Syringa, produced in New York, NY, 1979. Poetry recordings include Treasury of 100 Modern American Poets Reading Their Poems, Volume 17, Spoken Arts; Poetry of John Ashbery, Jeffrey Norton, and John Ashbery ( “Voice of the Poet” series), Random Audio, 2001. Translator, from the French, of the works of Raymond Roussel, Andre Breton, Pierre Reverdy, Arthur Cravan, Max Jacob, Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud, Noel Vexin, and others.