As Umbrellas Follow Rain
By John Ashbery
2001
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Ashbery's first new book since YOUR NAME HERE will delight old Ashbery fans and new students alike. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a founding influence on the New York School of poetry, Ashbery's writing is by turns playful, touching, and strange, frequently subverting its own apparent claims to sentiment. "After all regrets have been pocketed, the counter wiped clean / of terrible fingerprints, assuredly one moves westward / into sheepherding country" (from "Random Jottings of an Old Man"). AS UMBRELLAS FOLLOW RAIN is the first book by new SPD press QUA BOOKS, edited by Michael Gizzi and Craig Watson.
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Author
John Ashbery
Author · 43 books
John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and he traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to France in 1955. Best known as a poet, he has published more than twenty collections, most recently A Worldly Country (Ecco, 2007). His Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Viking, 1975) won the three major American prizes: the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and an early book, Some Trees, was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has served as executive editor of Art News and as the art critic for New York magazine and Newsweek. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1988 to 1999. The winner of many prizes and awards, both nationally and internationally, he has received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was a MacArthur Fellow from 1985 to 1990. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York, and since 1990 he has been the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard.
