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10 Questions for Poet John Ashbery

Complete description: American poet John Ashbery talks to TIME about fame, poverty, art criticism and why he hates the sound of his own voice
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Duration: 00:03:21.750
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The Poet's View -- John Ashbery

Complete description: Purchase the full DVD at: www.poets.org/dvd The Poet's View offers unprecedented access into the life and work of some of America's finest poets. These films are warmly insightful portraits recorded i
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Duration: 00:02:00
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John Ashbery accepts lifetime achievement award at 2011 National Book Awards

Complete description: John Ashbery's acceptance speech upon receiving the 2011 NBF Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. November 16, 2011, 2011 National Book Awards Ceremony, Cipriani, Wall Street, NYC
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Duration: 00:07:41.250
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Poet John Ashbery reads from Notes from the Air

Complete description: US poet John Ashbery reads the poem "Interesting People of Newfoundland " from Notes from the Air, winner of the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize. Learn more about the Griffin Poetry Prize at w
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Duration: 00:02:54
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John Ashbery - My Philosophy Of Life

Complete description: John Ashbery reads his poem My Philosophy Of Life My Philosophy Of Life by John Ashbery (1927-) Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea — c
Thematic Section: Education
Duration: 00:03:09
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Much On The Cliffs: The Philosophies of John Ashbery

Complete description: Winner of multiple awards for literary excellence, writer and educator John Ashbery is a seminal force in modern poetics. In an enlightening installment of Artists On The Cutting Edge, Ashbery reads,
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Duration: 00:21:56.250
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REEL TIME: An Audio Journey through John Ashbery's Early Life in Poetry || Woodberry Poetry Room

Complete description: Karin Roffman (author of the forthcoming Young John Ashbery: A Biography of His Early Life and Art) presents illuminating excerpts from Ashbery's over 1000 pages of childhood diaries, as well as rare
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Duration: 00:46:54
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John Ashbery - What Is Poetry

Complete description: John Ashbery introduces and reads his poem What Is Poetry What Is Poetry by John Ashbery (1927-) The medieval town, with frieze Of boy scouts from Nagoya? The snow That came when we wanted it to snow?
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Duration: 00:01:38.250
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Paul Auster and John Ashbery on Brooklyn at Brooklyn Book Festival Sept 12, 2010

Complete description: Novelist Paul Auster interviews fellow BoBi winner poet John Ashbery about his connections to Brooklyn in the St. Francis Auditorium at the Brooklyn Book Festival September 12, 2010
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Duration: 00:02:26.250
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"Paradoxes and Oxymorons," by John Ashbery

Complete description: Animated poem read by DJ Spooky. Part of the Poetry Everywhere series, produced by the Poetry Foundation in association with docUWM at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Animation by Kate Raney.
Thematic Section: Film & Animation
Duration: 00:01:30.750
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John Ashbery - "Soonest Mended"

Complete description: Adam Fitzgerald reciting of one Ashbery's first great poems.
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Duration: 00:03:38.250
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Dave Nolan Poetry Series: Discovering John Ashbery | From the Poetry Center Archive

Complete description: 92Y.org | On May 7, 2012, 92Y honored the latest winners of our "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest—Mario Chard, Rebecca Hazelton, Rosalie Moffett and Franke Varca—with an evening of readings
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Duration: 00:22:47.250
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"Still Life" by John Ashbery

Complete description: John Ashbery performed this piece on March 18, 2008 at the RJ Grey Junior High School in Acton, Massachusetts at the annual Robert Creeley Poetry Reading. John Ashbery is the 2008 winner of the Robert
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Duration: 00:01:05.250
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John Ashbery reading - Washburn Gallery - 28 March 2012

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Duration: 00:05:18.750
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John Ashbery Arthur Rimbaud Après Le Déluge French & English Subtitles

Complete description: Poet John Ashbery came to New York University's La Maison Française to read from his new book of translations of Rimbaud's 1886 prose poems " Illuminations" and to be presented with yet another honor
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Duration: 00:05:37.500
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John Ashbery at NBCC 35th Anniversary, WNYC

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Duration: 00:05:23.250
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"Daffy Duck in Hollywood" by John Ashbery (poetry reading)

Complete description: There are lots of echoes of other famous poems. It reminds me of Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning", TS Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Milton's "Paradise Lost" John Ashbery would probably not choose to e
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Duration: 00:05:48
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"Token Resistance", "Korean Soap Opera" by John Ashbery

Complete description: John Ashbery performed this piece on March 18, 2008 at the RJ Grey Junior High School in Acton, Massachusetts at the annual Robert Creeley Poetry Reading. John Ashbery is the 2008 winner of the Robert
Thematic Section: Education
Duration: 00:03:57.750
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Some Trees, by John Ashbery

Complete description: An English project - consists of me reading Ashbery's poem, accompanied by video filmed by me. Also contains a few still pictures and a brief video clip from Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of th
Thematic Section: Film & Animation
Duration: 00:00:56.250
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John Ashbery, A Tribute to Daniel Halpern

Complete description: John Ashbery pays tribute to Daniel Halpern, reading the poem, "Robin Hood's Barn," as well as Halpern's poem, "The Fish." --- "A Tribute to Daniel Halpern" was held on May 6, 2010 in the Rosenthal Pa
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Duration: 00:05:20.250
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John Ashbery reads At North Farm

Complete description: At North Farm Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he
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Duration: 00:00:39
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Poetry Spots: John Ashbery reads "Purists Will Agree"

Complete description: Season 1, Cut 2
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Duration: 00:01:09
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John Ashbery poem on the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge in Minneapolis

Complete description: The John Ashbery poem on the lintels of Irene Hixon Whitney bridge in Minneapolis. Crossing the bridge from the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden east to Loring Park, the poem can be read on the left-hand
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Duration: 00:02:25.500
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My Erotic Double by John Ashbery

Complete description: My Erotic Double by John Ashbery He says he doesnt feel like working today. Its just as well. Here in the shade Behind the house, protected from street noises, One can go over all kinds of old feeling
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Duration: 00:00:45.750
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"A Vase Full of Flowers" by John Ashbery (video by Gregory Brandt)

Complete description: Check out my other videos as well. I do awesome monologues which have aired on NPR.
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Duration: 00:00:24
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John Ashbery by Charles Bernstein

Complete description: to hear more, go to: writing.upenn.edu John Ashbery Video Portrait by Charles Bernstein September 16, 2007 John: The Film of Your Life After John's retrospective reading at the Bard 80th birthday cele
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Duration: 00:00:10.500
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John Ashbery

Complete description: a fleeting glance of the poet in Cincinnati in 1972
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Duration: 00:00:45
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Poetry Festival, 4/17/09: Fanny Howe, James Tate, John Ashbery

Complete description: Hosting the Stranger: Poetries of the Stranger Day 1 4/17/09
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Duration: 01:10:32.250
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Milton Babbitt, No Longer Very Clear [setting of a poem by John Ashbery for Soprano & ensemble].mpg

Complete description: In this house of blues the cold creeps stealthily upon us. I do not dare to do what I fantasize doing. With time the blue congeals into roomlike purple that takes the shape of alcoves, landings . . .
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Duration: 00:03:45.750
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