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John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927 Once again Ashbery has chosen a title that beautifully captures the whole formal enterprise of the collection.

John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and went to France as a Fulbright Scholar in 1955, living there for much of the next decade. His many collections include Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (2007), which was awarded the International Gri n Poetry Prize. Once again Ashbery has chosen a title that beautifully captures the whole formal enterprise of the collection. A planisphere is a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time, or a representation of the whole or a part of a sphere on a plane. Face it, poems are like that.

Planisphere: New Poems

Planisphere: New Poems. Ashbery is a national treasure. The poetry of John Ashbery has been awarded virtually every conceivable literary prize including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Planisphere is a new collection by one of America’s most innovative and influential poets-an exceptional artist Ashbery is a national treasure.

John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential poet of his time

John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential poet of his time.

John Ashbery was recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century American poets. He won nearly every major American award for poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Griffin International Award, and a MacArthur Genius Grant.

The bibliography of John Ashbery includes poetry, literary criticism, art criticism, journalism, drama, fiction, and translations of verse and prose. In his capacity as a journalist and art critic, he contributed to magazines like New York and Newsweek

The poetry of John Ashbery has been awarded virtually every conceivable literary prize including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the

Planisphere: New Poems BY John Ashbery. Hardcover, 160 pages

Planisphere: New Poems BY John Ashbery. Hardcover, 160 pages.

John Ashbery’s new collection, dedicated to his partner, David Kermani, draws its exotic title - Planisphere  . And, us to join, the world should all Be cramp’d into a planisphere

John Ashbery’s new collection, dedicated to his partner, David Kermani, draws its exotic title - Planisphere - from Andrew Marvell’s poem The Definition of Love, in which two perfect lovers have been kept apart by the goddess Fate, since their perfection would be her ruin: And therefore her decrees of steel Us as the distant poles have placed (Though Love’s whole world on us doth wheel), Not by themselves to be embraced, Unless the giddy heaven fall, And earth some new convulsion tear. And, us to join, the world should all Be cramp’d into a planisphere.

Ashbery is a national treasure.

Pulitzer Prize winning poet John Ashbery (who is also an ambassador of the Library's LGBT Committee) just came out with a delicious new book of poems. Planisphere has all of the vision, humor, slant observation, and colloquial intelligence for which Ashbery is famous