Q & A John Ashbury-life and works

                                                             

                                                   John Ashbury

                                          

                                          “I don't look on poetry as closed works.

                                           I feel they're going on all the time in my head and

                                           I occasionally snip off a length.”

                                                                   John Ashbury

                                                Quiz#1

                              John Ashbury-life and works
 

1. John Lawrence Ashbury was born in Rochester, New York, on July 28th 1927.T F

2. Ashbury was the first son of Chester Frederick (a farmer) and Helen Ashbury (a biology teacher) T F

3. Ashbury went to school in Washington and in his home town of Sodus. T F

4. At the age of fifteen Ashbury was sent as a boarder to Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. T F

5. In1947, Ashbury entered Harvard University, where he studied English. T F

6. Ashbery had been writing poetry since his schooldays. T F

7. Ashbery obtained his BA in1951. T F

8. Ashbury went to Columbia University to study for his BA. T F

9. Ashbury's first full collection was chosen by W.H. Auden for inclusion in Yale University Press's Younger Poets Series.  T F

10. Ashbury's period as a Fulbright fellow came to an end in 1957. T F

11. In 1960, Ashbury became art critic for the New York Herald Tribune (international edition) T F

12. In1962, Ashbury became art critic for Art International as well. T F

                                                              Answer Key

                                                   Ashbury-Life and works

1-True

2-True

3-False

4-False

5-True

6-True

7-False

8-False

9-True

10-True

11-True

12-False

Correct Answers

3- Rochester

4- Sixteen

5-1945

7-1949

8-MA

12-1961

                                                       Major Publications

• Turandot and Other Poems (1953)
• Some Trees (1956), winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize that year
• The Tennis Court Oath (1962)
• Rivers and Mountains (1966)
• The Double Dream of Spring (1970)
• Three Poems (1972)
• The Vermont Notebook (1975)
• Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
• Houseboat Days (1977)
• As We Know (1979)
• Shadow Train (1981)
• A Wave (1984), awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Bollingen Prize by Yale University
• April Galleons (1987)
• The Ice Storm (1987)
• Flow Chart (1991)
• Hotel Lautréamont (1992)

• And the Stars Were Shining (1994)
• Can You Hear, Bird? (1995)
• The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry (Ecco) collection of the poet's work from 1956 to 1972; a New York Times "notable book of the year" (1998)
• Wakefulness (1998)
• Girls on the Run (1999), a book-length poem inspired by the work of artist/novelist Henry Darger
• Your Name Here (2000)
• 100 Multiple-Choice Questions (2000)
• Other Traditions (2000) Harvard University Press
• As Umbrellas Follow Rain (2001)
• Chinese Whispers (2002)
• Selected Prose 1953-2003 (2005)
• Where Shall I Wander (2005) (finalist for the National Book Award)
• A Worldly Country (2007)
• Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (2007) (winner of the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Martory, Pierre The Landscapist Ashbery (Tr.) Carcanet Press (2008)