Thursday, April 25, 2024

World renowned poet John Ashbery has died at age 90

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Photo: John Ashbery, Poetry Foundation

John Ashbery, recognized as one of the most influential and greatest 20th-century American poets died early yesterday at his home in Hudson, New York of natural causes.

David Kermani, his husband, confirmed the death.

Ashbery’s 1975 collection “Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror” was the winner of the book world’s unofficial triple crown: the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics prize.

Ashbery was 90-years-old.

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