Ashbery, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
ASHBERY, JOHN 1927 , American poet, b. Rochester, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1949), Columbia (M.A., 1951). Ashbery...Ashbery has called his writing technique "managed chance." His poems are experimental in style and syntax, strongly visual, and...