A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and time periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed through the course of literary history, resulting in a history of poets as diverse as the literature they have produced.

The English term "poet" is derived from the Latin first-declension masculine noun "poeta, poetae" (literally meaning "poet, of the poet").

French poet Arthur Rimbaud summarized the "poet" by writing,

A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men: the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed—and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and, if demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!

Although that is only one opinion of many on a poet's definition.

See also

Bard

List of poets

Lyricist

Poet Laureate

Writer

References

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Name	Saul Williams
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Saul Stacey Williams
Born	February 29, 1972
Genre	Hip hop, Spoken word, poetry, electronic, Industrial hip hop
Occupation	PoetWriterSingerMusicianActorVoice Actor
Instrument	Vocals
Associated acts	Trent Reznor, Serj Tankian, Zack de la Rocha, Thavius Beck, Atari Teenage Riot, Buckethead
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Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American poet, writer, actor and musician known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and for his leading role in the 1998 independent film ''Slam''.

Biography

The youngest of three children, Williams was born in Newburgh, New York. He attended Newburgh Free Academy for high school, where he would write his song "Black Stacey." After graduating from Morehouse College with a B.A. in acting and philosophy, Williams moved to New York City to earn a Master's Degree at New York University in acting. There, he found himself at the center of the New York cafe poetry scene.

Williams and artist Marcia Jones began their relationship in 1995 as collaborative artists on the Brooklyn performance art and spoken word circuit. Their daughter, Saturn, was born in 1996. His collection of poems ''S/HE'' is a series of reflections on the demise of the relationship. [Marcia Jones], a visual artist and art professor, created the cover artwork for The Seventh Octave, images through-out S/HE in response to Williams, and set designed his 2001 album ''Amethyst Rock Star''. Saturn has recently been performing with her father on his 2008 concert tour .

On his 36th birthday, February 29, 2008, Williams married his girlfriend of five years, actress Persia White. Williams met White in 2003 when he made a guest appearance on the TV show ''Girlfriends'' as a poet named Sivad. (1993). On January 17, 2009, White announced via her MySpace blog that she and Williams were no longer together.

Williams is a vegan.

Career

By 1995, he had become an open mic poet and, in 1996, he won the title of Nuyorican Poets Cafe's Grand Slam Champion. The documentary film ''SlamNation'' follows Williams and the other members of the 1996 Nuyorican Poets Slam team (Beau Sia, Mums da Schemer and Jessica Care Moore) as they compete in the 1996 National Poetry Slam held in Portland, Oregon.

The following year, Williams landed the lead role in the 1998 feature film ''Slam.'' Williams served as both a writer and actor on the film, which would win both the Sundance Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes Camera D'Or (Golden Camera) and serve to introduce Williams to international audiences.

Williams was at this time breaking into music. He had performed with such artists as Nas, The Fugees, Christian Alvarez, Blackalicious, Erykah Badu, KRS-One, Zack De La Rocha, De La Soul, and DJ Krust, as well as poets Allen Ginsberg and Sonia Sanchez. After releasing a string of EPs, in 2001 he released the LP ''Amethyst Rock Star'' with producer Rick Rubin and in September 2004 his self-titled album to much acclaim. He played several shows supporting Nine Inch Nails on their European tour in summer 2005, and has also supported The Mars Volta.

Williams was also invited to the Lollapalooza music festival in Summer 2005. The Chicago stage allowed Williams to attract a wider audience. He also appeared on NIN's album ''Year Zero'', and supported the group on their 2006 North American tour. On the tour Williams announced that Trent Reznor would co-produce his next album.

This collaboration resulted in 2007's ''The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!''. This album was available only at the website niggytardust.com until a physical CD of the album was issued. The physical release included new tracks and extended album artwork. The first 100,000 customers on the website had the option to download a free lower-quality audio version of the album. The other option was for users to pay $5 to support the artist directly and be given the choice of downloading the higher-quality MP3 version or the lossless FLAC version. The material has been produced by Trent Reznor and mixed by Alan Moulder. It was Reznor who said that, after his own recent dealings with record labels, they should release it independently and directly.

As a writer, Williams has been published in ''The New York Times'', ''Esquire'', ''Bomb Magazine'' and ''African Voices'', as well as having released four collections of poetry. As a poet and musician, Williams has toured and lectured across the world, appearing at many universities and colleges. In his interview in the book, ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam'', Williams explained why he creates within so many genres, saying:

Williams is a vocal critic of the War on Terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; among his better-known works are the anti-war anthems "Not In My Name" and "Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)". In early 2008, a Nike Sparq Training commercial featured Williams' song "List of Demands (Reparations)".

In a November 2008 interview with Wired.com, Williams talked about his forthcoming projects:

In January 2009, he released "NGH WHT - The Dead Emcee Scrolls with The Arditti Quartet", a reading of his 2006 poetry book of the same name. This collaboration with Thomas Kessler (who also set '',said the shotgun to the head'' to music) is released with two payment options: listeners may download Chapters 18-22 of the 27-minute composition for free (in mp3 format), or for $6, can download the entire 33-chapter composition in lossless .aif format, along with the isolated vocal and quartet multitrack stems. The entire paid download totals in size at 563 Megabyte.

He currently resides in Paris, France.

Saul has recently released a new song 'Explain My Heart' from his forthcoming album Volcanic Sunlight. Williams showcased the album at London's Hoxton Bar Kitchen on January 26, 2011. Livemusic.fm interviewed Williams on the evening and made a subsequent film. Artist Alex Templeton-Ward produced the film. When Williams was asked what the point of poetry was he said "I'm making this up, I have no idea but here we go, I think that it would be to express, to share, to relieve, to explore", "for me poetry offers some what of a cathartic experience. I am able to move through emotions and emotional experience particularly, you know, break-ups, difficulties in all the things that I may face, whether that is with an industry or a loved one or whomever, there needs to be an infiltration process, like you have a window open over there. That is the purpose of poetry - it is the window that opens that allows some air in, some other insight, some other possibility so we can explore all that we feel, all that we think but with the space to see more than what we know, because there is so much more than we know.", "If I didn't open myself to the possibilities of the unknown then I would be lost."

Discography

Albums/EPs

''Penny for a Thought / Purple Pigeons'' (2000)

''Amethyst Rock Star'' (2001)

''Not in My Name'' (2003)

''Saul Williams'' (2004)

''The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!'' (2007)

''NGH WHT - The Dead Emcee Scrolls with The Arditti Quartet'' (2009)

''Volcanic Sunlight'' (2011)

Guest and compilation appearances

"Twice the First Time" on ''Eargasms - Crucialpoetics Vol. 1'' (1997)

"Elohim (1972)" on ''Black Whole Styles'' (1998)

"Ohm" on ''Lyricist Lounge, Volume One'' (1999)

"Coded Language" on ''Coded Language'' by DJ Krust (1999)

"Spongebob Squarepants" (2001)

"Release" with Lyrics Born and Zack De La Rocha on ''Blazing Arrow'' by Blackalicious (2002)

"Time (Jungle) (Temple Of Soul Mix)" on ''Nublu Sessions'', mixed by Wax Poetic (2003)

"Sent from Sandy Shores" (with Sacajawea) on ''Dreams of Water Themes'' by Adventure Time (2003)

''"Wake up Show Freestyles"'' by Sway and King Tech (2004)

"Three Fingers" on ''Enter the Chicken'' by Buckethead & Friends (2005)

"Sea Lion (Extended)" (with Will Oldham) on "Sea Lion" by Sage Francis (2005)

"Mr. Nichols" on ''Sound Mirrors'' by Coldcut (2006)

"April Showers, April Tears" on ''¿What'' by Stuart Davis (2006)

",said the shotgun to the head" on ''Thomas Kessler'' by Thomas Kessler (2006)

"Survivalism" and "Me, I'm Not" on ''Year Zero'' by Nine Inch Nails (2007)

"Gunshots By Computer" and "Survivalism" on ''Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D'' by Nine Inch Nails (2007)

"Lyrical Gunplay" on ''Thru'' by Thavius Beck

"Dance Of The Dead" on ''The Unbound Project, Vol. 1'' a compilation benefit album for Mumia Abu-Jamal

"List Of Demands" on Nike Sparq Commercial

"Black Stacy Remix" ft. Nas

"U Can Do It" (with Maeckes) on "KIDS" by Maeckes (2010)

"Dance or Die" on ''The ArchAndroid'' by Janelle Monáe (2010)

Bibliography

''The Seventh Octave'', 1998, Moore Black Press ISBN 0-9658308-1-0

''She'', 1999, MTV/Pocketbooks ISBN 0-671-03977-6

'',said the shotgun to the head'', 2003, MTV/Pocketbooks ISBN 0-7434-7079-6

''The Dead Emcee Scrolls'', 2006, MTV/Pocketbooks ISBN 1-4165-1632-8

Mentioned in Raine Maida's song "One Second Chance" off his 2007 Solo Album - "The Hunters Lullabye"

Filmography

''Downtown 81'' (voice) (1981/2000)

''Underground Voices'' (1996)

''Slam'' (1998)

''SlamNation'' (1998)

''I'll Make Me a World'' (1999)

''King Of The Korner'' (2000)

''K-PAX'' (2001)

''The N Word'' (2004)

''Lackawanna Blues'' (2005)

References

External links

Official Site

Saul Williams at Discogs

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__NOTOC__ Frank Mills (born June 27, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario), is a Canadian pianist and recording artist, best known for his solo instrumental hit "Music Box Dancer".

Mills grew up in Verdun, Quebec and started playing piano at age 3. He attended McGill University for five years. He started in Engineering, switched to a B.Sc. programme, then Arts and finally with the Department of Music. He entertained his fraternity brothers (Delta Upsilon) with songs from ragtime to a new artist Bob Dylan. The fraternity piano had thumbtacks on every hammer and produced a unique sound. In the late 1960s became a member of The Bells. He left the band in 1971 just before it had international success with the single "Stay Awhile."

Mills worked as a pianist for CBC-TV and recorded his first solo album, ''Seven Of My Songs'', which produced the hit single "Love Me, Love Me Love." The song made its debut on the Canadian charts in October 1971 and early the following year peaked at #46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #8 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart His followup single, a cover of Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" made Top 25 in Canada but stalled at #106 in the U.S.

Mills released an album in 1974 that featured "Music Box Dancer", but it was not a hit initially. When he re-signed with Polydor Records Canada in 1978, the label released a new song as a single, with "Music Box Dancer" on the B-side. The single was sent to easy listening stations in Canada, but a copy was sent in error to CFRA-AM, a pop station in Ottawa. The program director played the A-side and couldn't figure out why it had been sent to his station, so he played the B-side to see if the record was mistakenly marked. He liked "Music Box Dancer" and added it to his station's playlist, turning the record into a Canadian hit. Iconic Ottawa Valley radio personality Dave "50,000" Watts gave the record extensive airplay on the station. The album went gold in Canada, which prompted Polydor in the US to release the album and single.

In Nashville, news producer Bob Parker at WNGE-TV began playing the song over the closing credits of the newscast. Nashville DJs quickly latched on and both the single and album were hits. The million-selling Gold-certified single reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1979 as well as #4 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, while the album reached #21 on the Billboard Top Album chart and also went gold. Polydor awarded a gold record to TV station WNGE for breaking the single in the U.S.

It was Mills' only U.S. Top 40 pop hit; the follow-up, another piano instrumental titled "Peter Piper", peaked at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100 although it was a popular Top 10 hit on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Mills managed one final Adult Contemporary chart entry, "Happy Song", which peaked at #41 at the beginning of 1981.

Mills won two Juno Awards in 1980 for "Peter Piper", one for Composer of the Year and one for Instrumental Artist of the Year. He again won in the latter category in 1981.

He continued to release albums until the early 1990s, and in 2010 announced a Christmas tour with Canadian singer Rita MacNeil.

Sheet music

Music Box Dancer

The sheet music version of "Music Box Dancer" has sold in excess of 3 million copies. It is published by Music Box Dancer Publications which is a subsidiary of Mayfair Montgomery Publishing.

Other

''Somewhere a Child Is Sleeping: A Christmas Song'' (SATB with Piano)

Film and television appearances

"Music Box Dancer" was for a while, the theme song of the local Los Angeles CBS half hour TV documentary show "2 on the Town" back in 1979 through the early 1980s.

"Music Box Dancer" has been heard on an episode of ''The Simpsons'' and in the ''Kill Bill'' movies. It was used as the theme tune to the BBC2 golf programme, ''A Round with Alliss''.

There is a song in the musical ''Hair'' called Frank Mills, although the number has nothing to do with this artist.

References

External links

Official site

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name	John Ashbery
birth date	July 28, 1927
birth place	Rochester, New York, USA
occupation	Poet, Professor
nationality	American
period	1949-
movement	Surrealism
notableworks	Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
awards	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellowship
partner	David Kermani }}

John Lawrence Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection ''Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror''. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his ''Selected Prose,'' he characterizes himself as having been described as "a harebrained, homegrown surrealist whose poetry defies even the rules and logic of Surrealism." Although renowned for the postmodern complexity and opacity of his work, Ashbery has stated that he wishes it to be accessible to as many people as possible, not a private dialogue.

"No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery," Langdon Hammer, chairman of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008. "[N]o American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound." Stephen Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot, the "last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible".

Life

Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, and raised on a farm near Lake Ontario; his brother died when they were children. Ashbery was educated at Deerfield Academy. At Deerfield, an all-boys school, Ashbery read such poets as W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas, and began writing poetry. One of his poems was published in ''Poetry'' magazine, although under the name of a classmate who had submitted it without Ashbery's knowledge or permission. He also published a handful of poems, including a sonnet about his frustrated love for a fellow student, and a piece of short fiction in the school newspaper, the ''Deerfield Scroll''. His first ambition was to be a painter. From the age of 11 until he was 15 Ashbery took weekly classes at the art museum in Rochester. Ashbery graduated in 1949 with an A.B., ''cum laude'', from Harvard College, where he was a member of the ''Harvard Advocate'', the university's literary magazine, and the Signet Society. He wrote his senior thesis on the poetry of W. H. Auden. At Harvard he befriended fellow writers Kenneth Koch, Barbara Epstein, V. R. Lang, Frank O'Hara and Edward Gorey, and was a classmate of Robert Creeley, Robert Bly and Peter Davison. Ashbery went on to study briefly at New York University, and received an M.A. from Columbia in 1951.

After working as a copywriter in New York from 1951 to 1955, from the mid-1950s, when he received a Fulbright Fellowship, through 1965, Ashbery lived in France. He was an editor of the 12 issues of ''Art and Literature'' (1964–67) and the ''New Poetry'' issue of Harry Mathews's ''Locus Solus'' (# 3/4; 1962). To make ends meet he translated French murder mysteries, served as the art editor for the European edition of the ''New York Herald Tribune'' and was an art critic for ''Art International'' (1960–65) and a Paris correspondent for ''Art News'' (1963–66), when Thomas Hess took over as editor. During this period he lived with the French poet Pierre Martory, whose books ''Every Question but One'' (1990), ''The Landscape Is behind the door'' (1994) and ''The Landscapist'' he has translated (2008), as he has Jean Perrault (''Camouflage''), Max Jacob (''The Dice Cup''), Pierre Reverdy and Raymond Roussel. After returning to the United States, he continued his career as an art critic for ''New York'' and ''Newsweek'' magazines while also serving on the editorial board of ''ARTNews'' until 1972. Several years later, he began a stint as an editor at ''Partisan Review'', serving from 1976 to 1980.

During the fall of 1963, Ashbery became acquainted with Andy Warhol at a scheduled poetry reading at the Literary Theatre in New York. He had previously written favorable reviews of Warhol's art. That same year he reviewed Warhol's ''Flowers'' exhibition at Galerie Illeana Sonnabend in Paris, describing Warhol's visit to Paris as "the biggest transatlantic fuss since Oscar Wilde brought culture to Buffalo in the nineties." Ashbery returned to New York near the end of 1965 and was welcomed with a large party at the Factory. He became close friends with poet Gerard Malanga, Warhol's assistant, on whom he had an important influence as a poet.

In the early 1970s, Ashbery began teaching at Brooklyn College, where his students included poet John Yau. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983. In the 1980s, he moved to Bard College, where he was the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature, until 2008, when he retired; since that time, he has continued to win awards, present readings, and work with graduate and undergraduates at many other institutions. He was the poet laureate of New York state from 2001 to 2003, and also served for many years as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He serves on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal ''Conjunctions''. He was a Millet Writing Fellow at Wesleyan University, in 2010, and participated in Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series. Ashbery lives in New York City and Hudson, New York, with his partner, David Kermani.

Works

Ashbery's long list of awards began with the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956. The selection, by W. H. Auden, of Ashbery's first collection, ''Some Trees'', later caused some controversy. His early work shows the influence of W. H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, Boris Pasternak, and many of the French surrealists (his translations from French literature are numerous). In the late 1950s, the critic John Bernard Myers categorized the common traits of Ashbery's avant-garde poetry, as well as that of Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, Barbara Guest, Kenward Elmslie and others, as constituting a "New York School". Ashbery then wrote two collections while in France, the highly controversial ''The Tennis Court Oath'' (1962), and ''Rivers and Mountains'' (1966), before returning to New York to write ''The Double Dream of Spring'', which was published in 1970. Increasing critical recognition in the 1970s transformed Ashbery from an obscure avant-garde experimentalist into one of America's most important (though still one of its most controversial) poets. After the publication of ''Three Poems'' (1973), Ashbery in 1975 won all three major American poetry prizes (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award) for his ''Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror''. The collection's title poem is considered to be one of the masterpieces of late-20th-century American poetic literature.

His subsequent collection, the more difficult ''Houseboat Days'' (1977), reinforced Ashbery's reputation, as did 1979's ''As We Know,'' which contains the long, double-columned poem "Litany." By the 1980s and 1990s, Ashbery had become a central figure in American and more broadly English-language poetry, as his number of imitators evidenced. His own poetry was accused of a staleness in this period, but books like ''A Wave'' (1985) and the later ''And the Stars Were Shining'' (1994), particularly in their long poems, show the unmistakable originality of a great poet in practice.

Ashbery's works are characterized by a free-flowing, often disjunctive syntax; extensive linguistic play, often infused with considerable humor; and a prosaic, sometimes disarmingly flat or parodic tone. The play of the human mind is the subject of a great many of his poems. Ashbery once said that his goal was "to produce a poem that the critic cannot even talk about." Formally, the earliest poems show the influence of conventional poetic practice, yet by ''The Tennis Court Oath'' a much more revolutionary engagement with form appears. Ashbery returned to something approaching a reconciliation between tradition and innovation with many of the poems in ''The Double Dream of Spring'', though his ''Three Poems'' are written in long blocks of prose. Although he has never again approached the radical experimentation of ''The Tennis Court Oath'' poems or "The Skaters" and "Into the Dusk-Charged Air" from his collection ''Rivers and Mountains,'' syntactic and semantic experimentation, linguistic expressiveness, deft, often abrupt shifts of register, and insistent wit remain consistent elements of his work.

Ashbery's art criticism has been collected in the 1989 volume ''Reported Sightings, Art Chronicles 1957-1987'', edited by the poet David Bergman. He has written one novel, ''A Nest of Ninnies'', with fellow poet James Schuyler, and in his 20s and 30s penned several plays, three of which have been collected in ''Three Plays'' (1978). Ashbery's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University were published as ''Other Traditions'' in 2000. A larger collection of his prose writings, ''Selected Prose'' and his poetry volume ''Where shall I wander?'' appeared in 2005. In 2008, his ''Collected Poems 1956–1987'' was published as part of the Library of America series.

Reviews

In 2009 the ''Oxonian Review'' summarized Ashbery's work as follows:

This past October, the Library of America released John Ashbery’s ''Collected Poems (1956–1987)'', making him the first living poet to be “canonised” in the series. It is a fitting honour for a man whose decades-long reign as one of the high priests of the contemporary American poetry scene has always been something of a paradox. Having received nearly every major award for achievement in the humanities, he continues to incite considerable debate as to whether his poems “mean” anything at all. To read an Ashbery poem with the intent to explicate in the traditional sense is to make a daring, perhaps foolhardy, leap of semantic faith.

Influences

W. H. Auden

Wallace Stevens

Raymond Roussel

John Clare

Marianne Moore

Giorgio de Chirico

Jasper Johns

Gertrude Stein

Writings

''Turandot and Other Poems'' (1953)

''Some Trees'' (1956), winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize that year

'' The Tennis Court Oath'' (1962)

'' Rivers and Mountains'' (1966)

'' The Double Dream of Spring'' (1970)

'' Three Poems'' (1972)

'' The Vermont Notebook'' (1975)

''Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'' (1975), awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award

''Houseboat Days'' (1977)

''As We Know'' (1979)

''Shadow Train'' (1981)

''A Wave'' (1984), awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Bollingen Prize by Yale University

''April Galleons'' (1987)

''The Ice Storm'' (1987)

''Flow Chart'' (1991)

''Hotel Lautréamont'' (1992)

''And the Stars Were Shining'' (1994)

''Can You Hear, Bird?'' (1995)

''The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry'' (Ecco) collection of the poet's work from 1956 to 1972; a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" (1998)

''Wakefulness'' (1998)

''Girls on the Run'' (1999), a book-length poem inspired by the work of artist/novelist Henry Darger

''Your Name Here'' (2000)

''100 Multiple-Choice Questions'' (2000)

''Other Traditions'', 6 long essays on 6 other poets (2000) Harvard University Press

''As Umbrellas Follow Rain'' (2001)

''Chinese Whispers'' (2002)

''Selected Prose 1953-2003'' (2005)

''Where Shall I Wander'' (2005) (finalist for the National Book Award)

''A Worldly Country'' (2007)

''Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems'' (2007) (winner of the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize)

Martory, Pierre ''The Landscapist'' Ashbery (Tr.) Carcanet Press (2008)

''Planisphere'' (2009)

Rimbaud, Arthur ''Illuminations'' Ashbery (Tr.) W. W. Norton & Company (2011)

Further reading

Stephen Shore, Lynne Tillman, ''The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965-1967''

David Perkins, ''A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II, Modernism and After,'' Harvard University Press, 1987

Harold Bloom, ''Figures of Capable Imagination''

Laura Quinney, ''The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery''

John Shoptaw, ''On the Outside Looking Out,'' Harvard University Press, 1995

Helen Vendler, ''Soul Says,'' Harvard University Press, 1996

Andrew Epstein, ''Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry'' (Oxford University Press, 2006)

John Emil Vincent, ''John Ashbery and You: His Later Books''

References

External links

An essay by Ben Lerner on Ashbery's Library of America volume

Poems by John Ashbery at PoetryFoundation.org

The Ashbery Resource Center

John Ashbery at EPC

John Ashbery--the Academy of American Poets

Ron Silliman

:*Part 1:"Think about John Ashbery’s ''Three Poems''..." :*Part 2:"The only part of writing that is literally organic..." :*Part 3:"Nowhere is this resistance more fully enacted than in ''Three Poems''" :*Part 4:"As such, it represents one of the most intellectually ambitious literary projects ever written".

"Normalizing John Ashbery" by Marjorie Perloff

Still Time for Surprises: John Ashbery's Recent Books by Marjorie Perloff

"A Kind of Musical Space": Interview with John Ashbery by Craig Burnett

"Ashbery the Charlatan" by Said Shirazi.

Audio recordings from Key West Literary Seminar, 2003: Ashbery reading from ''Chinese Whispers''; Ashbery's 'mini-lecture' on Elizabeth Bishop

"John Ashbery and his poetry of Mud" - An interview with Aryanil Mukherjee @ Kaurab

Carcanet Press - John Ashbery's UK publisher

Griffin Poetry Prize biography

Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip

Ashbery author page and archive from ''The New York Review of Books''

Modern American Poetry, critical essays on Ashbery's works

Portrait in a Crimson Mirror: An interview with The Harvard Crimson

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Ted Kooser (born 25 April 1939) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006.

Biography

Early years

Born in Ames, Iowa, in 1939, Kooser earned a BS at Iowa State University in 1962 and the MA at the University of Nebraska in 1968. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry. He is former vice-president of Lincoln Benefit Life, an insurance company, and lives on land near the village of Garland, Nebraska. Also, He owned a company, Windflower. This company published books. He teaches as a Visiting Professor in the English department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is married to Kathleen Rutledge, former editor of the ''Lincoln Journal Star''.

Career

On August 12, 2004, he was named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by the Librarian of Congress to serve a term from October 2004 through May 2005. In April 2005, Ted Kooser was appointed to serve a second term as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. During that same week Kooser received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book "Delights and Shadows" (Copper Canyon Press, 2004).

Kooser lives in Garland, Nebraska, and much of his work focuses on the Great Plains. Like Wallace Stevens, Kooser spent much of his working years as an executive in the insurance industry, although Kooser sardonically noted in an interview with the ''Washington Post'' that Stevens had far more time to write at work than he ever did. Kooser has won two NEA Literary Fellowships (in 1976 and 1984), the Pushcart Prize, the Nebraska Book Awards for Poetry (2001) and Nonfiction (2004), the Stanley Kunitz Prize (1984), the James Boatwright Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2005).

He hosts the newspaper project "American Life in Poetry."

Bibliography

''Official Entry Blank''. (1969).

''Grass County''. (1971).

''Twenty Poems''. (1973).

''A Local Habitation and a Name''. (1974).

''Not Coming to Be Barked At''. (1976).

''Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems''. (1980).

''One World at a Time''. (1985).

''The Blizzard Voices''. (1986).

''Weather Central''. (1994).

''A Book of Things''. (1995).

''Riding with Colonel Carter''. (1999).

''Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison''. (2001).

''Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry''. (with Jim Harrison) (Copper Canyon Press, 2003).

''Delights and Shadows''. (Copper Canyon Press, 2004).

''Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps''. (2004).

''Flying At Night : Poems 1965-1985''. (2005).

''Lights on a Ground of Darkness: an evocation of place and time''. (2005).

''The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets''. (2005).

''Valentines''. (2008).

contributor to: Letters to a Young Iowan, 2007, Ice Cube Press

References

External links

Official website

Ted Kooser: Online Resources from the Library of Congress

American Life in Poetry, Kooser's syndicated newspaper feature

Author interview in Guernica Magazine (Guernicamag.com)

Ted Kooser biographical summary

Linton Weeks, ''Washington Post'', "Poet Laureate's Prized Words", April 5, 2005, page C1

A review of ''Delights & Shadows'' by Ted Kooser.

Television Profile of Ted Kooser - NET Television

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