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- Birth nameJohn Lawrence Ashbery
- John Ashbery was born on July 28, 1927 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Forbidden Room (2015), How to Take a Bath (2009) and Lines of the Hand (2015). He was married to David Kermani. He died on September 3, 2017 in Hudson, New York, USA.
- SpouseDavid Kermani(? - September 3, 2017) (his death)
- Poet. His collection "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle prize.
- He was also an art critic and teacher at Brooklyn College.
- He was an art critic for the New York Herald-Tribune in Europe, New York magazine, and Newsweek. He translated works by Arthur Rimbaud and many other French writers.
- I attempt to use words abstractly, as an abstract painter uses paint . . . I originally wanted to be a painter, and did paint until I was 18 years old.
- I guess it would be wonderful to be America's greatest living painter and have acres and acres of one's work to survey and have prizes and museums and wealth, but I think I'd rather stick with poetry.
- There are not that many things to write poetry about. There's love and there's death and time passing and the weather outside, which is horrible today. I'm so glad I'm not writing poetry today. The weather gets to me when I write.
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