The bibliography of John Ashbery includes poetry, literary criticism, art criticism, journalism, drama, fiction, and translations of verse and prose. His most significant body of work is in poetry, having published numerous poetry collections, book-length poems, and limited editionchapbooks. In his capacity as a journalist and art critic, he contributed to magazines like New York and Newsweek. He served for a time as the editor of Art and Literature: an International Review and as executive editor of Art News. In drama and fiction, he wrote five plays and cowrote the novel A Nest of Ninnies with James Schuyler. Beyond his original works, he translated verse and prose from French. Many of his works of poetry, prose, drama, and translations have been compiled in volumes of collected writings.
Ashbery published 26 books of poetry (not including his limited edition books, listed below). Most of them are poetry collections, which typically contain a mix of new and previously published poems. Flow Chart and Girls on the Run are book-length long poems.
The first edition of these works were printed in a limited edition. They are often printed as chapbooks, with each copy numbered and with a set number of signed copies. Many of these books are collaborations with visual artists or other poets. The contents of these books often share significant overlap with Ashbery's poetry collections; for example, Turandot and Other Poems overlaps significantly with Some Trees.
Includes illustrations by Jane Freilicher. Published as a chapbook. Although it was published before Some Trees, most of its poems were also collected in that book, which is regarded as the first (or first "major") volume of Ashbery's poetry.[1] Limited edition of 300 copies.[2]
Includes prints by Joan Mitchell. Limited edition of 225 copies; 25 are numbered, 200 are signed.
1968
Sunrise in Suburbia
Phoenix Book Shop
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Chapbook containing the poem of the same name. Limited edition of 126 copies.[2]
1968
Three Madrigals
Poets Press
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Chapbook containing the poem of the same name. Published by Diane di Prima's Poets Press. The poem is reproduced as a facsimile (copy) of Ashbery's handwritten original, which includes several drawings.[3] Limited edition of 162 copies.[2]
Chapbook containing the six haibun poems from A Wave. Illustrations by Judith Shea.[2]
1991
The Kaiser's Children
Charles Seluzicki
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Fine art edition containing excerpts from the poem "Dreams of Adulthood", which was originally published. Includes illustrations by Eric Stotik. Limited, numbered edition of 50 copies, signed by Ashbery and Stotik.[2]
Contains the poem of the same name. Includes illustrations by Jane Freilicher. Limited, numbered edition of 300 copies.[2]
1998
Novel
Grenfell Press
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Contains the poem of the same name, written in 1954 but previously unpublished. Includes illustrations by Trevor Winkfield. Limited, numbered edition of 100 copies, plus 15 artists' proofs; all copies signed by Ashbery and Winkfield.[4]
Chapbook containing the poem of the same name. Illustrated by Elizabeth Murray. Limited edition chapbook of 200 copies, with 26 copies lettered A to Z signed by the poet and the artist with an original print by Elizabeth Murray.
Dust jacket art by Tom Burckhard. Limited edition in two runs: 100 numbered copies signed by Ashbery and Burckhard, and 900 unnumbered unsigned copies.[6]
1999
The Recital / Le Récital
Ergo Pers Artists' Books
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Contains the prose poem of the same name (originally published in Three Poems). Bilingual edition in English and French. Translation by Franck André Jamme. Illustrated by Hanns Schimansky. Limited edition chapbook of 40 copies.[2]
Library of America series, volume 187. Edited by Mark Ford. Contains all poems from Some Trees, The Tennis Court Oath, Rivers and Mountains, The Double Dream of Spring, Three Poems, The Vermont Notebook, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Houseboat Days, As We Know, Shadow Train, A Wave, and April Galleons, as well as previously uncollected poems.
Library of America series, volume 301. Edited by Mark Ford; chronology by Mark Ford and David Kermani. Contains all poems from Flow Chart, Hotel Lautréamont, And the Stars Were Shining, Can You Hear, Bird, Wakefulness, Girls on the Run, and Your Name Here, as well as previously uncollected poems.
Edited by Mark Polizzotti. Preface by Polizzotti, introduction and an interview with Ashbery by John Yau. Includes a selection of Ashbery's collages, several previously published poems, and a poem that had only been published once before in Karin Roffman's biography The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life(2017).[8] It is Ashbery's first posthumous book—though, according to Polizzotti's preface, it was "for all intents and purposes finished before his passing".[9]
Included in Three Plays. Written in 1950; first staged by the Living Theatre in 1952.[7]
1955
The Compromise
Included in Three Plays. Written in 1955; first staged by the Poets Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1956.[7] The text of the play includes Ashbery's poem "America". The Compromise was published in the one-shot review The Hasty Papers(1960), edited by Alfred Leslie.[10]
1956
The Milky Coconut
Four scenes from the play were published in two issues of Semi-Colon; otherwise unpublished.[11]
Ashbery has been the interviewee in numerous published interviews. There has been one book-length interview published to date: John Ashbery in Conversation with Mark Ford. Only interviews published in books are listed here, not interviews published in periodicals or websites.
The Ashbery Resource Center maintains a searchable online bibliography. Beyond Ashbery's works, the site also catalogs numerous other works not included here, such as publications of his works in translation and works about Ashbery to which he did not contribute. Like the 1976 bibliography, this online bibliography is overseen by Kermani.
Kermani, David; Morrissette, Micaela; Rudegeair, Anni; Hendrix, Jenny; Briscese, Rosangela (2004). "Annotated Catalogue of the ARC Archive". Ashbery Resource Center – a project of The Flow Chart Foundation. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
Notes
1 2 3 4 5 The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) system was not formally introduced until 1970 and, consequently, first editions of Ashbery's pre-1970 books did not have an ISBN. Instead, the Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is used. Later editions of these early works typically have an ISBN. Even after 1970, several of the limited-edition books do not have ISBNs, in which case the LCCN is used.
Ashbery, John; Briscese, Rosangela; Kermani, David (2007). "Three Early Works ['Song from a Play'; 'The Poems'; 'Three Madrigals']". Conjunctions (49): 232–251. JSTOR24516469.
Kermani, David (2004). "Elementary Ashbery (an essay)". Ashbery Resource Center – a project of The Flow Chart Foundation. Archived from the original on April 20, 2015. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
Kermani, David; Morrissette, Micaela; Rudegeair, Anni; Hendrix, Jenny; Briscese, Rosangela (2004). "Annotated Catalogue of the ARC Archive". Ashbery Resource Center – a project of The Flow Chart Foundation. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
Polizzotti, Mark (2018). "Preface; Credits and Acknowledgements". They Knew What They Wanted: Poems and Collages. By Ashbery, John. Polizzotti, Mark (ed.). Rizzoli Electa. pp.7–8, 127. ISBN978-0-8478-6056-2.
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