Der am 28. Juli 1927 in Rochester (New York) geborene US-amerikanische Dichter John Ashbery (Bild) ist am 3. September 2013 in Hudson (New York) gestorben. Er galt als einer der einflussreichsten Lyriker der USA.
Foto: David Shankbone, 2010 – CC-Lizenz: Attribution 3.0 Unported – Datei: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashbery#/media/File:Ashbery-2010-09-12.jpg
John Ashbery, Celebrated and Challenging Poet, Dies at 90
John Ashbery, an enigmatic genius of modern poetry whose energy, daring and boundless command of language raised American verse to brilliant and baffling heights, died early Sunday at age 90.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/09/03/arts/ap-us-obit-john-ashbery.html?mcubz=0
One way to read his poetry, Mr. Ashbery suggested in a 1991 interview, was to think of it as music. «Words in proximity to one another take on another meaning,» he said. «What you hear at a given moment is a refraction of what’s gone before or after.»
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/arts/john-ashbery-dead-prize-winning-poet.html?mcubz=0
Ashbery galt als einer der einflussreichsten Poeten der USA. 1975 gewann er den Pulitzerpreis für sein Werk «Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror». Mehrmals wurde er für den Nobelpreis gehandelt.
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/john-ashbery-ist-tot-a-1165938.html
Videos:
10 Questions for Poet John Ashbery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVZ-mWrX_s
Poet John Ashbery reads from Notes from the Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4b8VkGFpHY
Much On The Cliffs: The Philosophies of John Ashbery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go7H-1VrzSY
John Ashbery reads «Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror» (full poem)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrvXX9QVAT8
Mehr:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-ashbery
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/john-ashbery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashbery
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