Ashbery

American  

[ash-ber-ee, ‑buh-ree] / ˈæʃˌbɛr i, ‑bə ri /

noun

1. John, 1927–2017, U.S. poet.

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Example Sentences

And Stone seamlessly balanced these elements in a production that was as tonally assured as a John Ashbery poem.

From Los Angeles Times

In the Camberley West division, Alan Ashbery picked up the seat with 1,617 votes, which was another gain, this time from the Conservatives.

From BBC

Marjorie Perloff, whose incisive, at times idiosyncratic readings of avant-garde artists like Ezra Pound, John Cage and John Ashbery made her one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary poetry, died on Sunday at her home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

From New York Times

And it radiated out, intersecting with other arts and artists who were making New York a leading center of modernism: the choreographer Merce Cunningham, the poet John Ashbery, the painters Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and many others.

From New York Times

Like Warren, he wrote in a wide variety of genres — including 12 novels, 18 books of poetry and two books of criticism — and was widely considered at the top of the game in all of them; among other major recognitions, he won the prestigious Bollingen Prize for poetry in 1985, alongside John Ashbery.

From New York Times