Ashbery, John Lawrence (1927– )

US poet and art critic. His collections of poetry – including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which won a Pulitzer Prize – are distinguished by their exuberant artifice and strong visual and musical elements. His most experimental work, Europe (in The Tennis Court Oath (1962)), uses montage and collage methods derived from cubist painting. Other volumes include Some Trees (1956), Houseboat Days (1977), As We Know (1979), A Wave (1984), And the Stars Were Shining (1994), Girls on the Run (1999), Your Name Here (2000), and Chinese Whispers (2002).

Ashbery's numerous published translations from the French include works by Max Jacob, Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud, and two collections of poems by Pierre Martory.