| A native of Rochester, New York, John Ashbery (b. 1927) is the prolific author of twenty three volumes of poetry, plus fiction, plays and criticism. He is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including The Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, all of which were garnered by his 1976 collection Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror. This was the first and remains the only time that one book has been awarded all three of the major American literary prizes and demonstrates Ashbery's centrality to American poetics in the post-war period.
1 The Instruction Manual 6.06
2 Some Trees 0.54
3 For John Clare 3.41
4 Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape 2.59
5 What Is Poetry 0.45
6 At North Farm 0.54
7 The Songs We Know Best 3.51
8 Landscape (After Baudelaire) 1.43
9 Just Walking Around 1.03
10 More Pleasant Adventures 1.24
11 Hotel Lautreamont 4.57
12 This Room 0.33
13 If You Said You Would Come With Me 2.25
14 A Linnet 1.08
15 The Bobinski Brothers 1.16
16 The History of My Life 0.47
17 A Nice Presentation 2.09
18 Disagreeable Glimpses 5.00
19 Theme Park Days 1.43
20 View of Delft 1.04
21 The Lightning Conductor 2.14
22 I Asked Mr. Dithers Whether It Was time Yet He Said No to Wait 0.56
23 Chinese Whispers 5.42
24 Local Legend 1.47
25 Sir Gammer Vans 2.57
Total length of the recording 58.00
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