John Ashbery, 1927-

Turandot and Other Poems, with four drawings by Jane Freilicher. New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. 300 copies.

Some Trees. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. Yale Series of Younger Poets.

Melville, by Jean-Jacques Mayoux, translated by Ashbery. New York: Grove/London: Evergreen, 1960.

Murder in Montmartre, by Noel Vexin, translated by Ashbery. New York: Dell, 1960.

Poems by Ashbery, Prints by Joan Mitchell. New York: Tiber Press, 1960. 225 copies.

The Deadlier Sex, by Geneviève Manceron, translated by Ashbery, as Jonas Berry, and Lawrence G. Blochman. New York: Dell, 1961.

Alberto Giacometti, by Jacques Dupin, translated by Ashbery. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1962.

The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962.

The Fuck You Quote of the Week. New York: Fug Press, 1964.

Jacquet. New York: Alexander Iolas Gallery, 1964. Ashbery’s appreciation of the work of the artist Jacquet in a folder for the artist’s first exhibition in the United States.

Rivers and Mountains. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966.

Selected Poems. London: Cape, 1967.

The American Literary Anthology, selected by Ashbery and others. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968.

The Avant-garde, by Ashbery and Thomas B. Hess. New York: Newsweek, 1968; as Avant-garde Art, London: Collier-Macmillan, 1968.

Sunrise in Suburbia. New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. 126 copies.

Three Madrigals. New York: Poets Press, 1968. 162 copies.

Fragment. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 1,020 copies.

A Nest of Ninnies, by Ashbery and James Schuyler. New York: Dutton, 1969; Manchester: Carcanet, 1987.

The Double Dream of Spring. New York: Dutton, 1970.

Narrative Art, edited by Ashbery and Thomas B. Hess. New York: Newsweek/Macmillan, 1970. Art News Annual, vol. 36.

The New Spirit. New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1970. 65 copies.

John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch: (A Conversation). Tucson: Interview Press [between 1965 and 1970].

Academic Art, edited by Ashbery and Thomas B. Hess. London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971.

John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971. Penguin Modern Poets, no. 19.

Light in Art, edited by Ashbery and Thomas B. Hess. New York: Collier Books, 1971.

Painterly Paintings, edited by Ashbery and Thomas B. Hess. New York: Macmillan, 1971.

Three Poems. New York: Viking, 1972.

Kenward Elmslie, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, edited by Ashbery. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974. Penguin Modern Poets no. 24.

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems. New York: Viking, 1975; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976; new edition, with original prints by Richard Avedon, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R. B. Kitaj, Larry Rivers, together with a foreword by Ashbery, a recording of his reading of the poem and, on the album, an essay by Helen Vendler, San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984, 175 copies, portfolio with sound recording.

The Vermont Notebook. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Limited issue of 276 copies and trade issue.

Houseboat Days: Poems. New York: Viking, 1977; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.

Three Plays. Calais, VT: Z Press, 1978, 1,526 copies; Manchester: Carcanet, 1988. Contains: The Heroes; The Compromise; The Philosopher.

As We Know: Poems. New York: Viking, 1979; Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1981.

The Dice Cup: Selected Prose Poems, by Max Jacob, edited, with an introduction, by Michael Brownstein, translated by Ashbery and others. New York: SUN, 1979.

Two Scenes. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1979. Broadside. Folger Evening Poetry Series.

A White Paper. [s.l., s.n., 197-]. Broadside.

Apparitions: Poems, by Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin, L. M. Rosenberg, and Dave Smith. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1981. 350 copies.

Shadow Train. New York: Viking, 1981; Manchester: Carcanet, 1982.

Fairfield Porter: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction, with essays by Ashbery and Kenworth Moffett. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982. Exhibition catalog.

Kitaj: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, by Ashbery and others. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1983.

Spring Day. Winston-Salem, NC: Palaemon Press, 1984.

A Wave: Poems. New York: Viking, 1984; Manchester: Carcanet, 1984.

Selected Poems. New York: Viking, 1985; Manchester: Carcanet, 1986.

April Galleons. New York: Viking, 1987; Manchester: Carcanet, 1988.

The Ice Storm. Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1987.

John Ashbery. New York: Dia Arts Foundation, 1987.

The Best American Poetry, 1988, edited by Ashbery. New York: Macmillan, 1988.

Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles, 1957-1987, edited by David Bergman. New York: Knopf, 1989; Manchester: Carcanet, 1989.

Flow Chart. New York: Knopf, 1991; Manchester: Carcanet, 1991.

Hotel Lautréamont. New York: Nadja, 1991, 151 copies; New York: Knopf, 1992; Manchester: Carcanet, 1992.

Selected Poems, by Pierre Reverdy, translated by Ashbery and others. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1991.

Hebdomeros, with Monsieur Dudron’s Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings, by Giorgio de Chirico, translated by Ashbery and others, with an introduction by Ashbery. Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 1992.

Three Books: Poems. New York: Penguin, 1993. Republishes Houseboat Days; Shadow Train; A Wave.

And the Stars Were Shining. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994; Manchester: Carcanet, 1994.

The Landscape Is Behind the Door, by Pierre Martory, translated by Ashbery. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 1994.

Can You Hear, Bird: Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995; Manchester: Carcanet, 1995.

How I Wrote Certain of My Books and Other Writings, by Raymond Roussel, edited by Trevor Winkfield, translated by Ashbery and others, with an introduction by Ashbery. Boston: Exact Change, 1995.

Pistils/Mapplethorpe: Essay. New York: Random House, 1996.

The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1997. Republishes Some Trees; The Tennis Court Oath; Rivers and Mountains; The Double Dream of Spring; Three Poems.

Wakefulness: Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998; Manchester: Carcanet, 1998.

Girls on the Run: A Poem. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.

 

Bibliographies:

DLB 5, DLB 165.

DLB Yearbook 1981.

FPAA 1.

David K. Kermani. John Ashbery: A Comprehensive Bibliography, Including His Art Criticism and with Selected Notes from Unpublished Materials. New York: Garland, 1976.